84 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



SELECTING OUR EVERGREENS 



ORDINARILY, the amateur in consulting a cata- 

 logue for the selection of Evergreens is more or 

 less bewildered at the array of strange and unfa- 

 miliar names and designations, and often is unable 

 to intelligently separate from each other those 

 types suited for mass or foundation planting from 

 those larger types suitable only for growing as 

 trees. 



The selection of varieties here listed, by no 

 means complete, gives a wide range of types and 

 colorings of those suited for massing, and with 

 this guide anyone can make apropriate selections 

 from the nursery catalogue, or if one happens to 

 be so fortunate as to visit a large nursery, it is 

 well to take this list along and ask to see these 

 varieties. 



Some of the types we have listed are very slow 

 growing; others are more rapid in growth, but 

 may be pruned or cut back, notably amongst this 

 latter class, the Austrian pine and the blue spruce, 

 both of which in time grow to large size, yet by 

 intelligent pruning will be good in the massed 

 planting for a long time, and also will add very 

 much to the variety and charm of the planting. 



We list the following suitable types for your 

 consideration : 



