ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



many of the old homesteads there are em- 

 bowered in them. 



The Magnolia conspicua and Magnolia 

 Soulangiana can he grown either as small 

 trees or large shrubs. In intensely cold 

 localities they are somewhat difficult to bring 

 through the first two or three Winters, but 

 if given some protection by driving ever- 

 green branches into the ground about them, 

 they will generally survive. They grow rap- 

 idly when once well established. 



Everyone knows the value of the Lorn- 

 bardy poplar in giving emphasis to the land- 

 scape; when properly planted they are very 

 effective. 



I have been told by landscape gardeners, 

 that the Lombardy poplar no longer flour- 

 ishes to great age in this country as formerly, 

 and as it still flourishes abroad, one man of 

 great experience saying to me that he did 

 not know of a single perfect row of these 

 trees that had been planted within the last 

 twenty years, in every case some having died 

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