ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



in Winter, and it is a day's work for three 

 or four men to get out and plant one tree, 

 unless the conditions are unusually favorable. 



When planting shrubberies with evergreen 

 trees and shrubs for a screen, they can be 

 placed closely together at first and thinned 

 out as they grow. I have two or three such 

 shrubberies, from which it seems always pos- 

 sible to take out an evergreen and a shrub 

 with benefit to those remaining, so quickly 

 do they grow. 



The Arbor vitae pyramidalis, of close 

 growth and lending itself easily to shearing, 

 is one of the hardiest and most satisfactory 

 evergreens for formal planting. 



The Irish juniper is another beautiful 

 pointed tree with blue-green foliage, but it is 

 not hardy in severe Winters. Last Autumn 

 I protected mine, first by spreading a heavy 

 mulch of stable manure around them and 

 then by driving three cedar trees cut from 

 the woods into the ground about each tree, 

 tying all together with heavy cord, but they 

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