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Edited by Gwen Steege, Carleen Madigan, and Elizabeth P. Stell
Editorial adaptation by Penelope O’Sullivan
Art direction and book design by Cynthia N. McFarland
Text production by Jennifer Jepson Smith

Cover and interior decorative illustration by © William Howell Golson
Interior illustrations by © Elayne Sears, except for 167 by Beverly Duncan;
   42 top, 54, 56, 57, 81, 82, 138, 192–194, and 288 by Elara Tanguy

Indexed by Catherine F. Goddard
Expert review by Tchukki Andersen and Kevin Smith

© 2011 by Lewis Hill

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Hill, Lewis
   [Pruning made easy]
   The pruning answer book / Lewis Hill and Penelope O’Sullivan.
      p. cm.
   Previously published as: Pruning made easy.
   Includes index.   
   ISBN 978-1-60342-710-4 (flexibind with paper spine: alk. paper)
   1. Pruning. I. O’Sullivan, Penelope. II. Title.
SB125H45 2011
635.9′1542—dc22

2010043058