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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



GROWTH IN FIVE YEARS. 

 Figure 2. May, 1915. The tall shrubs at the right of the pic- 

 ture are Tartarian bush honeysuckle, both white and red flow- 

 ered. These' are pruned severely in early spring and grow 

 four to 6 feet in a season. In front of the right half of the 

 covered porch are forsythia suspensa, or golden bell. These 

 are among the earliest spring bloomers. In front of these and 

 next to the lawn are deutzia gracilas, which have the most 

 graceful spikes of delicate and fragrant white waxy blooms. 

 The low evergreens along the walk are dwarf Chinese golden 

 arborvitae. The tall ones are pyramidical golden arborvitae. 

 These grow rather rapidly and must be clipped back occa- 

 sionally. 



TWO-YEAR GROWTH. 



Figure 3. May, 1911. This shows the right of the front steps 

 and is a striking contrast to Figure 1, just two years earlier. 

 The tall plants next to the porch are rose-colored weigelia. 

 These are rank growers, forming long plumes of beautiful 

 flowers. The plants in bloom are spirea Van Houteii, the most 

 graceful of all the spireas and usually called bridal wreath. 

 The plants next to the lawn in the foreground are the feathery 

 foliaged spirea Thunbergii. Tins is the earliest spirea to 

 bloom in the spring. In the angle of the porch to the left are 

 two plants of European euonymous. All of these plants except 

 the euonymous should be pruned in spring as soon as they 

 have bloomed. 



ALSO TWO-YEAR GROWTH. 



Figure 4. August, 1911. This is a continuation of Figure 3 

 around to the right. The clumps in the center background are 

 hydrangeas on each side of the cement walk at the front en- 

 trance. These two-year-old plants of hydrangea paniculata 

 grandiflora are nearly four feet high and in full bloom. To the 

 right of these is a bed of perennial phlox. These were taken 

 out later and replaced by shrubs, such as abelia, hydrangea 

 hortensis and dwarf philadelphus. To the right of these the 

 tall, healthy looking plants are European euonymous, shown 

 in Figure 3. In front of these, next to the lawn, are Japanese 

 barberry. The vine on the front of the porch is clematis pani- 

 culata. The top of this vine kills down each winter, so it does 

 not show in Figure 3, taken the previous May. 



AFTER THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 



Figure 5. August, 1912. Compare with Figure 1, taken 3 1-2 

 years before. Is this transformation possible* in so short a 

 time? The picture says. Yes! The shrubs next to the house 

 are described in detail in Figures 2, 3 and 4. The California 

 privet hedge as shown is about 5 or 6 feet high. The big white 

 blooms just inside the hedge are the hydrangeas shown from 

 the other side in Figure 4. At the corners of the covered 

 porch are robust plants of clematis paniculata in full bloom. 

 The two ''alligators'* climbing over the porch railing at tiie 

 right are bitter-sweet and dutchman's pipe vines getting up 

 in the world. 



FIVE YEARS FROM BARE GROUND. 



Figure 6. This shows the place in May, 1914. The two Norway 

 maple trees in the foreground were moved there in April, 1909. 

 Most of the top was cut off and they were taken up with big 

 balls of earth around their roots. In the back yard are four 

 more of these trees, moved there at the same time. At the 

 left of the front steps is a clump of spirea Van Houteii in 

 bloom (see Figure 7), and at the left boundary of the yaru, 

 partly hidden by the trolley pole, is another clump of the saiiu- 

 kind in bloom. In a corner of the yard to the left of the 

 trolley pole and just inside the hedge is the clump of lilao 

 and snowballs, tlie latter being in bloom, and at the right of 

 the picture is a grroup of native trees and shrubs moved in from 

 the fields and woods. 



ALL IN FIVE YEARS. 



Figure 7. May, 1914. Group of spirea Van Houttei, shows also 

 in Figures 3 and 6. This forms big, graceful billows of bloom 

 resembling a frozen waterfall. The gem of the spireas, five 

 years after planting. The evergreen checking its overflow is 

 retinospera ericoides, with its dense, dark green, feathery 

 ioliage, which is hardy and stands any exposure perfectly. 



