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however, should stand at least twenty-five feet 

 apart, and be allowed to develop individual 

 strength. Do not trim up any of these trees, but 

 let them set flat on the ground. The arbor-vitse 

 and the hemlock can be planted more closely, so 

 that the limbs interlock, as in a low hedge. Select, 

 as a rule, an evergreen which is native to your own 

 section, and can be obtained for the digging. In 

 New Hampshire and Maine I should take the 

 white pine. What magnificent windbreaks has 

 nature made of these trees, on the farms which 

 touch the mountains of the Granite State. 



Among other less common but really excellent 

 evergreens for our purposes are: (1) The golden 

 arbor-vitse. This variety is of Chinese origin, and 

 is very beautiful with its yellowish-green foliage. 

 1 do not think it quite hardy north of New York. 

 (2) Two small growing varieties of arbor-vitse with 

 foliage golden and beautiful, are the Hovey and the 

 George Peabody. (3) The retinosporas are all 

 excellent, but two of them make beautiful bushes 

 or small trees, with rich golden color and a plume- 

 like foliage. These are retinospora plumosa aurea 

 and the gracilis aurea. (4) Among the most up- 

 right growing evergreens there are some fine ones; 



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