Bouchalès is a productive vine that can create full foliage and high yields if not severely pruned.

A.: Long before it became fashionable to serve pea vines, a woodchuck taught me that you can prune severely and still get a crop of peas.

St Stephen's Girls' College came under criticism in May 2011 when the school severely pruned and seriously damaged a protected candlenut tree on the college's campus.

Behind the stark, severely pruned trees lies a long, low line of bushes topped by a sky of exhilarating blue.

But progress in all areas has nearly stopped because the United States has been insisting unsuccessfully that the European Community severely prune its sprawling system of farm subsidies.

Sharen S. Benenson, a trustee and former longtime chairwoman of the Gramercy Park trustees, favors the manicured look, with little clipped boxwoods and trees severely pruned.

Given the inflationary pressures building up in the economy, the UK strategy should be to drive up sterling by defining a programme now to severely prune public expenditure.

Newly planted bushes should be pruned severely, cutting all shoots back to two buds above ground level.

In these talks the British were inevitably overshadowed by the Americans, and Keynes's more radical (and expensive) schemes to rebuild and expand world trade were either frustrated or severely pruned.

But the company has embarked on a sweeping program to sell billions of dollars worth of properties and severely prune its thicket of 336 separate businesses.