1.   Cut out the dead wood so that the young new wood can grow and develop.

2.   What Tallis had taken for a forked beard she could see, now, were curved tusks of wood growing from each side of the round, wet mouth.

3.   And when the woods grow dense, they go elsewhere.

4.   As you prune, you remove flower-producing wood and will have to wait until new wood grows and matures enough to produce blooms.

5.   When you prune, you remove flower-producing wood and will have to wait until new wood grows and matures enough to produce blooms.