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or Saintfoin, is also useful in this way, its flowers and foliage 

 being quite pretty, and its roots running so that it is almost 

 impossible to destroy them. Hops answer a similar purpose. 



EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



FOURTEEN KINDS. 



1. ARBOR VIT^], American (Savin), Thuya Occidentals ; 

 Chinese, Thuya Orientalis ; Siberian, Thuya Siberica. All 

 pretty evergreens, often used for hedges ; but the Chinese is 

 rather tender, and unsightly in winter. 



2. BALSAM FIR, American, Picea balsamea. A common 

 but fine tree. 



3. BOX-TREE, Buxus arborescens, &c. A fine ornamental 

 evergreen, with silver or golden striped varieties, resembling 

 somewhat the common garden box, but of freer and larger 

 growth, and not so hardy. Increased by layers. 



4. CEDAR, INDIAN, Cedrus deodara. A fine drooping ev- 

 ergreen, growing late in the fall, and often injured by the cold 

 of winter at the North. 



5. CEDAR, RED, Juniperus Virginiana. Too common to 

 be esteemed as it deserves. Good for ornamental hedges, and 

 excellent for shelter. 



6. CEDAR OF LEBANON, Cedrus Libani ; Silver-leaved, Ce- 

 drus argentea. Fine trees, but of slow growth. The Cedar 

 of Lebanon is, however, worthy of cultivation for its associa- 

 tions. Its seeds are borne in fine large cones. 



7. COTONEASTER, Small-leaved, Cotoneaster microphylla. 

 A small, pretty shrub. Increased by layers. 



8. HOLLY, American, Ilex opaca ; European, Ilex aquifo- 

 lium. The European Holly has a very deep green foliage, and 

 the variegated kinds are pretty and desirable wherever the win- 

 ters are not too severe. They are grafted upon stocks of the 

 green varieties, generally by tongue-grafting, a little xtra care 

 being used in the operation. 



9. MAHONIA, Holly-leaved, Mahonia aquifolia. A showy 

 shrub three or four feet high, especially gay in the fall, but 

 having its foliage injured in the winter at the North, unless 

 covered from the sun.. Increased by layers. 



