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In microeconomics, pruning taken as a metaphor from gardening, refers to the removal of "excess" items from a budget. Microeconomics (literally, very small economics) is the study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of production and income among them. ... Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. ...


In gardening, pruning is the practice of removing diseased, overmature, or otherwise unwanted portions from a woody plant. Pinching back herbaceous plants, such as chrysanthemums to encourage denser growth or more profuse or delayed flowering, is a form of pruning. So, on an even smaller scale, is the garden practice of "deadheading", or removing spent flowers before they begin to set seed, in order to concentrate a plant's energy on continued flower production. Gardening is an activity—the art and craft of growing plants—with a goal of creating a beautiful environment. ... A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a... This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ... Species - tricolor daisy - pyrethrum - pyrethum daisy - crown daisy - marguerite - daisy - florists           chrysanthemum C. segetum - corndaisy Ref: ITIS 35791 See also Daisy (disambiguation) The chrysanthemum, also known as the mum, is a flowering perennial plant of the genus Chrysanthemum in the daisy family (Asteraceae). ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...

Correct pruning of a branch. First cut a notch on the underside at cut '1', then remove the bulk of the weight of the branch with a cut at '2'. This stops the weight of the branch tearing the bark if done with just one cut. Then locate the branch collar, a strip of rough bark running down from the topside of the branch at its junction with the stem. Cut '3' should start just outside this, and angle outwards such that angle 'a' is equal to angle 'b', leaving a slight stub, wider at the bottom than the top.
Correct pruning of a branch. First cut a notch on the underside at cut '1', then remove the bulk of the weight of the branch with a cut at '2'. This stops the weight of the branch tearing the bark if done with just one cut. Then locate the branch collar, a strip of rough bark running down from the topside of the branch at its junction with the stem. Cut '3' should start just outside this, and angle outwards such that angle 'a' is equal to angle 'b', leaving a slight stub, wider at the bottom than the top.

Pruning small branches can be done at any time of year. Large branches, with more than 5-10% of the plant's crown, can be pruned either during dormancy in winter, or in mid summer just after flowering, for species where winter frost can harm a recently-pruned plant. Autumn should be avoided, as the spores of disease and decay fungi are abundant at this time of year. Image File history File links Pruning. ... Image File history File links Pruning. ... Dormancy is a survival strategy which temperate climate species are generally believed to have [[ to survive winters. ... In many parts of the world, winter is associated with snow. ... Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern hemisphere. ... team chaos was ere we owned this website so fuk u. ... Autumn (often referred to as fall in North America) is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition from summer into winter. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Yellow fungus Fungus growing on a tree in Borneo A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. ...


Some woody plants that tend to bleed profusely from cuts, such as maples, or which callous over slowly, such as magnolias, are better pruned in summer or at the onset of dormancy instead. Woody plants that flower early in the season, on spurs that form on wood that has matured the year before, such as apples, should be pruned right after flowering, as later pruning will sacrifice flowers the following season. Species with pages written Acer campestre - Field Maple Acer grandidentatum - Bigtooth Maple Acer griseum - Paperbark Maple Acer macrophyllum - Bigleaf Maple Acer micranthum - Komine Maple Acer negundo - Manitoba Maple Acer nigrum - Black Maple Acer palmatum - Japanese Maple Acer pensylvanicum - Striped Maple Acer platanoides - Norway Maple Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore Maple Acer rubrum... Species See text Magnolia is a large genus of about 120 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. ... Binomial name Malus domestica Borkh. ...

Pruning: dense growth after shearing
Pruning: dense growth after shearing

Shearing to form hedges or topiary is also a form of pruning, in which most of the growing points are tipped back, to produced artificially dense growth. Proponents of pruning, both gardeners and orchardists, often argue that it is an art, and that it improves the health of the plant and makes sturdier structure, often referred to as the "scaffold"; opponents believe that pruning harms plants' "natural" forms. my photo giving to public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... my photo giving to public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... In gardening a hedge is a row of woody plants, generally of one species, used to demarcate spaces. ... A topiary dinosaur at Epcot Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of shrubbery, after the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, toparius. ... Resources ArtLex. ... Bamboo scaffolding can reach great heights Scaffolding is a temporary modular system of metal pipes (termed tubes in Britain) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. ... Natural is defined as of or relating to nature; this applies to both definitions of nature: essence (ones true nature) and the untouched world (force of nature). Natural is often used meaning good, healthy, or belonging to human nature. This use can be questioned, as many freely growing plants...


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Prune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (262 words)
Prunes are cultivars of plum species (mostly Prunus domestica).
Dried fruit of the prune tree were traditionally called "dried prunes" or "prunes", but an effort is currently underway to market them as "dried plums".
In the United States, due to the negative association of prunes with regularity and the elderly, the California Dried Plum Board, renamed and began remarket prunes as "dried plums".
Plum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (688 words)
Prunes are sweet and juicy, and they have a very high dietary fiber content, so prune juice is often used to help regulate the functioning of the digestive system.
Prune marketers in the United States have, in recent years, begun marketing their product as "dried plums", because "prunes" has negative connotations of being unappetizing, and suitable only for the elderly.
Prune kernel oil is made from the fleshy inner part of the pit of the plum.
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