Pruning Trees And Shrubs

by Ephraim Porter Felt

Pruning is an ancient practice. There are references to it in the early scriptures. Many writers have dealt with the subject subsequently and within the last fifty years much attention has been given to the pruning of trees in commercial orchards and there is still much to be learned.

245 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 25, 2010

About the author

Ephraim Porter Felt was an American entomologist who specialized in Diptera.

Felt worked mostly with Nematocera, particularly Cecidomyiidae. However, as State Entomologist for New York, the scope of his work included all insects of economic or medical significance. He wrote Insects Affecting Park and Woodland Trees(New York State Museum Memoir 8, 1905-1906) and Plant Galls and Gall Makers (Ithaca, N.Y., Comstock Pub. Co., 1940), and described over 1,000 species in scientific journals. He described the mosquito genus Culiseta. The holotypes of the Felt-named insect species are in the National Museum of Natural History.

He was the great grandfather of Edward P. Felt (1959–2001), a victim aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the attacks on September 11, 2001.