78 THE LANDSCAPE GARDENING BOOK 



for sweet peas or morning glories get the Imperial Japanese 

 variety will cover it in no time, while the slower, hardy stuff is 

 making growth. The evergreen honeysuckles are, of all fence- 

 climbers, the most satisfactory, to me at least. This not only 

 because they are so hardy, and practically evergreen, but because 

 they blossom freely and fill the air with such delightful fragrance. 

 Planted at ten-foot intervals and " layered ' ' for a couple of years 

 a long branch from each plant laid down along the fence to 

 root, covered lightly at the joints with earth they form a 

 growth in a very short time so dense and compact that it is 

 virtually a hedge. 



FLOWERING HEDGES TRIMMED OR LEFT NATURAL 



i Berberis Thunbergii: Thunberg's Japanese barberry; four 

 feet high ; any soil and will endure shade ; hardy everywhere ; 

 there is no better plant, in every way, for a hedge; dense 

 and defensive, twiggy, thorny growth which becomes like 

 a solid wall if sheared; foliage fine and clean, autumn color 

 brilliant; bright scarlet berries persistent all winter; at all 

 seasons beautiful; set small plants eighteen inches apart if 

 the hedge is to be sheared, twenty-four to thirty inches 

 apart if it is to be left natural. 



2 Berberis aquifolium: holly-leaved barberry; six feet high; 

 any soil; an evergreen, beautiful in winter color; yellow 

 flowers small and numerous along the branches; blossoms 

 in May; set eighteen to thirty inches apart, as above. 



3 Cratcegus Crus-galli: cockspur thorn; to twenty-five feet 

 high ; any soil, though it usually chooses rather rich localities 

 when growing wild; flowers very like the flowers of apple 

 trees, white, in loose clusters; blossoms in May and June; 



