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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



urban home, located on a new development or erstwhile green foliage. In front of it a 2-foot Roster's blue 

 farm pasturage, a fine, handsome, stucco house on a raw spruce and a pyramidal Japanese retinospora. the three 

 and treeless lot. Four Norway maples had already been trees forming a triangle in the corner of the hedge. The 

 perpetrated upon the front lawn by the development foreground of this group consisted of a small is-inch 

 company, thereby ruining any possibility of a dee]), rest- lliota (Jrientalis and a ;i-foot Thread-lSranched retinos- 

 ful greensward. I advised the removal of the twu central pora with an American pitch i>ine terminating the rear 

 ones to the rear flanks of the house. These were :>-inch peak of the group. In the west corner, where the hedge 



corner was twenty feet on a side, the interior triangle 



]>egan with a retinospora plumosa set in the corner, on 



each front of it an American hem- 



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nursery specimens, easily trans]>lanted because of the 



large, compact ball of roots which the root-jiruning and 



transjilanting at the nursery gives 



them, so there was no difticulty 



about moving them ar(iund in the 



proper season, which should be 



after the sap is down in October. 



The front liay windows of the 

 living room faced the street and 

 Lmder them I advised a border of 

 the short and slow-growing ever- 

 greens. Retinospora Plumosa. 

 .Vmerican Hemlock, Xordmann's 

 Fir ( a short, squatty \ariety witli 

 thick dark green horizontal 

 branches ) one or two Biotas, a 

 slender Irish juni]>er at one pro- 

 jecting corner (but not at the 

 other, lest a banal symmetry over- 

 take us) and in the deep re-en- ^^ 

 trant angle behind the iiorch. a "i- 

 foot Norway spruce. 



.\t the end of the walk leading 

 up to the porch entrance we put 

 in a small blue Koster"s spruce on 

 each side of the steps, this bein;^ 

 the nearest approach to anything 

 formal attempted. Along the 

 south wall of the house went 

 flowering shrubs, two deutzias. ;i 

 wigelia and a forsythia (of which 

 more anon). This was all — just a 

 little suburban plot, which is the 

 easiest thing in the w'orld to clut- 

 ter u]) with shrul)s, we dejiended 

 for the rest of our effect upon 

 a small but untroubled lawn and 

 a side border of privet hedge. I 

 allowed him. however, one red 

 Japanese maple, set about ojipo- 

 site the corner of the house, across 

 the path on the south side on the 

 narrow strip of lawn between it ;md the hedge. 



The second diagram shows a rather large place, loii 

 ],v l"iO feet, the house in Dutch colonial on ;i low knoll, 

 with a rolling lawn sloping down to the sidew.alk. .\ 

 |)rivet hedge bordered this plot on both sides, with a 

 small corner extending for some in feet along the front foundation of the group, with a wigelia and two spireas 

 lot line on each side. These corners were lilleil with ( \"an Ilouteii ) in the foreground. Worked into this 

 evergreen shrubbery of the following selections: in the liank of llowering shrubs are ditfercnt colored azalias 

 angle of the east corner a retinospora i)lunios;i. tightly and similar small bushes, and. terminating the bed where 

 clii)])ed. forming a large globular cone of feathery blue- ii reaches the drivewav is ;i group of the spreading hy- 



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l.ayr.tni sviiiable for a suhurli.in cottage on a snial 

 ]ol. Frontage, ol) feet. 



lock and a Japanese retinospora, 

 and in front of these four 

 trees a small arborvitae. a 2-foot 

 Roster's blue spruce, a Biota of 

 about the same size, and a Nor- 

 way spruce terminating the rear 

 peak of the group. This would 

 become a rather large tree in 

 time and was therefore planted 

 some 1 feet from the hedge, and. 

 as in this case the planted area 

 continued back along the hedge in 

 a long sweep planted with roses 

 and flowering shrubs, it was fol- 

 lowed at once with a dense bed 

 of rosa rugosa, whose persistent, 

 glossy, dark green foliage made a 

 fitting transitional selection to the 

 deciduous shrubs. The rosa rogo- 

 sa is that very spin}- rose bush, 

 with the large deep red flowers 

 like the wild rose and the great 

 red rose-apples, persistent and 

 ornamental all through the winter. 

 Pruned down close it comes up 

 denser and thicker each season 

 and a bed of them is always a 

 striking ornament winter or sum- 

 mer, either as a border for a path 

 or for a hedge. 



The deciduous shru])s began 

 with a rose niagn.jlia. a tine 

 flower l)ouquet in the early 

 sjiring: then two forsythias 

 (golden bells), conspicuous in 

 the early spring Ijefore the leaves 

 are out; then, along the narrow- 

 est sweep of the shrubbery came 

 the roses, lots of them, all kinds, 

 the pride and glory of the gracious ladv who presides 

 o\er all the growing things about this jilace. Behind these 

 the bed curves out again to the driveway terminating the 

 lawn, and we have more sjjace for planting. Here were 

 tlie larger flowering shrubs, three deutzias forming the 



