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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Figure 5, are not "alligators" they are bitter-sweet and 

 Dutchman's pipe vines getting up in the world. Dupli- 

 cates of these are at the opposite end of the porch. These 

 were all taken out later because they helped to hold 

 the moisture which caused the porch timbers to decay. 

 The bitter-sweet became quite a nuisance in overgrowing 

 and twining around shrubs and had to be cut back sev- 

 eral times a year. 



The matrimony vine, which climbs up at each side of 

 the garage door, shown in Figure 8, is very effective and 

 satisfactory. Part of the main stems die each winter, but 

 enough are always left to make an enormous growth. 

 Each spring all branches are cut back to stubs and 

 during the summer many shoots must be trimmed off 

 at the sides and above the door. These plants produce 

 myriads of little flowers, dearly loved by the bees, fol- 

 lowed by red berries which hang on nearly all winter. 



On the ground within the pergola, shown in Figure 9, 

 is the winter feeding place of such birds as the Kentucky 

 cardinal, junco or snow bird, an occasional blue jay and 

 the ubiquitous English sparrow. They enjoy finely cracked 

 sweet corn, pop corn and field corn. Extending out 

 across the lawn to the south from the barberries are the 

 bright twigged shrubs which have their innings in winter 

 when the beautiful bark colors are at their best. Here 

 are the dark green jasmine, the pale green dogwood, 

 the rich red dogwood and the bright yellow Russian 

 willow and one white birch. These have an evergreen 

 background of cypress and Norway spruce and the color 



effect in winter is striking. Just south of the Russian 

 willows a group of eleagnus longipes marks the south 

 boundary. The flowers of these plants are rather in- 

 conspicuous, but they develop into beautiful cherry-like red 

 fruits with many gray dots. These ripen just after 

 Early Richmond cherries and the robins and cat birds 

 are crazy to get them. To the east of these shrubs along 

 the south boundary are first a group of Van Houttei 

 spirea and purple leaved barberry, then single plants 

 of crape myrtle and magnolia stellata backing up a bed 

 of German iris. These reach to the corner group of snow- 

 balls and lilacs. The lilacs are wonderfully fine, with 

 large clusters of fragrant double flowers of white, dark 

 purple and shades of lavender color, except the Persian 

 lilac which has the most delicate single flowers. The snow- 

 ball bushes are simply masses of white balls when in bloom. 



The evergreen windbrake, shown in Figure 12, was 

 planted in 1909 and has flourished beyond belief. Three 

 years after this picture was taken the limbs were touch- 

 ing in places and the tallest trees were about twenty feet 

 high. Farther to the left, but not shown in Figure 

 12 are a second Nordman fir and a Norway s])ruce which 

 are shown at the extreme left in Figure 9. Between 

 the evergreens are rhododendrons in bloom. During one 

 very cold winter the Lawson cypress was slightly but 

 not seriously nor permanently injured. The others are 

 as hardy as oaks in this northwest exposure. They will 

 need pruning to prevent injury by crowding. 



The bag worm is very fond of the taste of the Colorado 



THE PERGOLA IN FIVE YEARS. 



Figure 9. This is south side of the pergola on May 31, 1914, five years 

 ing in the right center are the American wisteria. The Japanese plant 

 catc lilac color. They are wonderfully beautiful. No doubt all of the pla 

 spring after the manner of pruning grape vines. The flower clusters 

 than the others, and all are perfectly hardy. The low plants at the ba 

 early in the spring and always have a few flowers tucked away under 

 Along both sides of the pergola are scores of giant narcissus bulbs and 

 flowers in the spring. The bulb on the south side bloom a week or 

 tame varieties. The clothes line post in the foreground is surrounded 



from planting. The end plants are Japenese wisteria and those bloom- 

 s bloom carler and have flower clusters 22 inches long, of the most deli- 

 nts would produce larger blooms if they were pruned moderately each 

 are borne on the new shoots like grapes. The Japs are much stronger 

 se of the pergola are rank growing single violets, which blooin very 



those great leaves when heavy freezing weather comes in the fall. 



a few tulips asleep now, but producing hundreds of big, nodding 

 ten days earlier than those on the north side, and they are of the 



by a big mass of pampas grass. 



