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rows, may be purchased, or one may gather the 

 plants right from the woods, digging the plants 

 at the proper time and not when they have a new 

 soft growth, taking the plants up carefully and 

 replanting them with as little delay as possible. 



In Colonial days the most important evergreen 

 was the Boxwood, a very slow growing plant with 

 small leaves, growing close and compact. 



A wonderful planting of Boxwood may be seen 

 today at Mount Vernon, surrounding Martha 

 Washington's flower garden as a high hedge, and 

 used as a border with lavish hand for the sur- 

 rounding of many irregular flower beds and bor- 

 dering the paths, sheared! to uniform design and 

 to a height of about two and a half feet. 



And the Boxwood is just as popular today as 

 it ever was, but we live faster, and Boxwood grows 

 very slow, so in our haste we have adapted other 

 plants largely to take its place. 



Today, specimen plants of Boxwood! are very 

 expensive if one requires large, well-formed plants. 

 Just a few days ago the writer was told of one 

 woman who had a hedge of such plants, probably 

 about fifty or sixty feet in length, and she had 

 recently refused an offer of eight hundred dollars 

 for them. 



Boxwood may be had in suitable specimens how- 

 ever for tub planting, ranging from two to three 

 feet in height, and at fairly reasonable prices, as 



