20 THE BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF THE YEAR 



them out with a ball of earth around the roots. When one pur- 

 chases them in this condition, balled and burlapped, it is only 

 necessary to remove the wrappings, place the specimens in the 

 ground in the especially prepared holes^and the evergreen effect 

 is at once achieved. 



For the background of the shrubbery border nothing can be 

 planted which gives better results and more beautiful effects 

 than these broad-leaved evergreens. Where a screen is needed 

 nothing can be chosen which will serve the double purpose of 

 beauty and utility like masses of the English Laurel, Laurocerasus 

 laurocerasus^ Ligustrum japonica and Ligustrum lucidum. Ilex 

 glabra^ Ilex opaca. Ilex Cassine, the Neriums, the evergreen Haw- 

 thorn, Pyracantha coccinea Lalandii, and Eriobotrya japonica^ the 

 Japanese Medlar or Loquat. 



For a quick-growing background either Cerasus caroliniana^ 

 the Carolina Cherry, or the native wild Olive, Olea americana, is 

 distinctive and beautiful, and both subsequently assume tree-like 

 growth. The wild Olive is extremely difficult to transplant from 

 the wildwoods, but if cut back slightly and entirely defoliated it 

 may be successfully lifted even though it has reached several feet 

 in height. This is also true of the Hollies. December is the 

 best time to move them. 



For the extensive grounds and bold landscape effects. Mag- 

 nolia grandiflora, M. grandijlora gloriosa^ M. juscata^ the sweet- 

 scented Banana Shrub, the evergreen Oaks and the fragrant 

 Osmanthus are used. The magnificent specimens of the beautiful 

 old Magnolias that grace the spacious lawns of the old southern 

 homes and line the avenues of some of our cities and most of the 

 old cemeteries are wonderfully beautiful all the year. Some of 

 these trees in Bonaventure cemetery at Savannah are more than 

 a hundred feet high and are gloriously beautiful when in flower 

 and most attractive when the scarlet seeds show on the brown 

 pods in the Autumn. Here they are festooned with clinging veils 

 of the grey Spanish Moss, as they are also in New Orleans. 



Individual specimens of these trees are often planted in the 

 sidewalk grass plots and are most attractive in this situation as 

 well as wherever large evergreen plantings are desirable. The 



