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However; by cutting it in summer it is possible to restrain the plant without encouraging massive growth. In late or early winter cut back all shoots to within two or three buds of the point where they started growing in the previous season. Where a plant becomes too large, also prune it in mid-summer; cutting the current season's young shoots back to within five or six buds of the plant's base.

Savanna grass-ind develops in regions of high temperature that ave a distinct wet and dry season. Growth is ipid in the wet season, but the plants become ry and low in quality in the dry season. Widely >aced drought-resistant trees may occur in some •eas such as in the savanna parklands of Africa id Australia. Savannas are subject to flooding i the wet season and to extensive burning in le dry season. These grasslands are heavily•azed by large numbers of cattle. Major prob-ms are poor grass quality in the dry season, irasites, and disease. The tsetse fly is a major•oblem in Africa. There are no true savannas North America.

Christmas to Easter is the high season in Sicily, Cyprus, the Greek isles such as Crete and Rhodes, Majorca, Madeira, the Canaries. Here you may savor high-season pleasures at low-season transportation costs. Easter, by the way, is a special season of life in Seville and other Spanish cities and on the French Riviera. These goals of travel are crowded then and the Riviera is crowded also in late summer and early fall.