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group or a screen mostly in the background to allow the ever- 

 greens to show dark and well defined before and among them. 

 Leave plenty of room between the two kinds of trees rather 

 more than between the trees that are the same remembering 

 that deciduous trees expand very much more and very much 

 more rapidly than evergreens, and therefore need a wider berth. 



LIST OF PLANTS 

 FOR POOR SOIL 



i Juniperus Virginiana: red cedar; usually about fifty feet, 

 sometimes one hundred feet high; this naturally reforests 

 arid hills and stony, barren, abandoned lands; will grow 

 also on the seashore. 



2 Pinus rigida: pitch pine; sixty feet high or more; becomes 

 contorted and picturesque with age; plant in groups of 

 several. 



3 Picea pungens: Colorado spruce; sometimes one hundred 

 feet high, and rapid-growing for an evergreen; foliage is a 

 light silvery green, becoming true green with age. 



FOR WET SOIL 



i Cupressus thyoides (or Chamcecyparis thyoides): white cedar; 

 seventy feet high or more ; grows in swamps which are under 

 water part of the time. 



2 Thuya plicata: Nootka Sound arborvitse, or red, or canoe 

 cedar; one hundred and fifty feet high or more; native to 

 low moist bottom-lands ; this has not been used as much as 

 it should be, but happily it is growing in favor; it is truly 

 a giant arborvitae. 



$ Thuya occidentals: white cedar or common arborvitae; 



