TY - JOUR T1 - National Implications Of An Urban Forestry Survey in Wisconsin JF - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) JO - JOA SP - 125 LP - 127 DO - 10.48044/jauf.1978.030 VL - 4 IS - 6 AU - Robert W. Miller AU - Timothy R. Bate Y1 - 1978/06/01 UR - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/4/6/125.abstract N2 - Baumgardt, John P. 1977. Maintenance pruning throughout the year. Grounds Maintenance 12(11): 34-37, 41,43.Pruning is not a cut-and-dried procedure. Each pruning job is appropriate to a particular season, depending on what plant material is being pruned and what the pruning is designed to accomplish. When setting up the maintenance pruning schedule, bear in mind a basic horticultural axiom. Dormant season pruning stimulates growth during the following growing season; pruning early in the growing season tends to reduce growth over the following year or two. A large, relatively nonbleeding shade tree such as a mature oak, sycamore or elm can be cleaned up very effectively in winter. Spring pruning ought to be limited to work on new shoots. Early summer pruning of these newly hardened shoots is especially effective with ornamental members of fruiting species such as flowering crabapples, Callery pear, the ornamental plums, flowering quince, and the like. Limit early fall pruning to essential chores such as repair of storm damage. ER -