ORNAMENTAL HEDGE PLANTS 



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is hardy everywhere. If undipped it forms a low, dense hedge 

 of great beauty and used formally it makes one of density and 

 durability, as well as beauty. 



Almost as delicate as Fern fronds are the leaves of Thun- 

 berg's Spiraea, Spirxa Thunbergii^ which usually blooms in March 

 and whose dainty and beautiful little blossoms remind one forcibly 

 of Baby's Breath, Gypsophila paniculata. It is commonly called 

 Snow Garland and the finely-cut brown stems are flower-starred 

 before the leaves show at all. Its branches are slender and droop- 

 ing, its leaves very narrow and of light green which changes to 

 an orange and red in the Fall. This is a planting that makes 

 for beauty and not for protection. For lightening masses of shrub- 

 bery, for softening the lines of buildings, for outlining terraces, 



Tree Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) as it grows in Maryland 



