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Arches for garden paths, entrance gates, or they can be placed 

 end to end, as in the formal garden of Mr. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, 

 L. I. These arches are accurately trained, and can be taken apart 

 and shipped. See also privet arches on page 62. 



Tall Cedars in our nursery, ready for transplanting any time of the 

 year. These 25 -foot trees can be safely shipped. 



Cedar Hedge, protecting the vegetable garden of Mr. W. Emlen 

 Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. The Marsh Elder (Baccharis halmi- 

 folia) growing on the Beech at high-tide level. See page 56. 



Red Cedar 



(Juniperus Virginiana] 



This is the cheapest evergreen for immedi- 

 ate effect. It is among the best evergreens 

 for sterile, sandy soil and salt spray. 



We have solved more landscape problems 

 with the Red Cedar than with any other 

 evergreen, not only because it is abundant 

 and cheap, but because it is beautiful and 

 rapid in growth. A plantation of young 

 Cedars will gain in height as rapidly as the 

 average Pine or Spruce. 



The illustrations show some of the uses to 

 which it has been put. The service court and 

 laundry paddock are problems at every 

 house. Cedars will make screens for the least 

 cost in the most dense and thorough manner, 

 and occupy the least space. 



For screening buildings, we have planted 

 hundreds of tall Cedars which have com- 

 menced work right away and kept it up the 

 year round and proven that they can keep it 

 up for 50 or 100 years, for Cedars are very 

 long-lived trees. It is amusing to see people 

 try Lombardy Poplars for this work on 

 unsuitable soils and exposures, because " Pop- 

 lars are so quick, you know." The Poplars 

 will frequently grow quickly for two or three 

 years and then, like a tattered veil, commence 

 to thin out and look worse than no planting. 

 Privacy and seclusion are fundamental; 

 demands of human nature in a civilized 

 stage. There should be portions of the lawn, 

 garden and porches secluded from intrusion. 

 Rest and repose are nearly as essential as food 

 The flower garden can be screened from the 

 other portions of the ground and become 

 practically an out-door room. 



We have thousands of Cedars ready. 

 The gardens of Italy are famous for the 

 Cypress, tall columns of bronze-green. In 

 the formal gardens on large, recently es- 

 tablished country estates, we have repro- 

 duced this effect with the native Red Cedars. 

 In our Nursery are specimens trained for 

 this purpose from 3 feet to 35 feet high. 



For bluffs and sand dunes, small Cedars 

 should be planted thickly with Pitch Pine, 

 Scotch Pine, Bayberry, Virginia Creeper, 

 Goldenrod and other drought-resisting 

 plants. 



We move native Cedars any month in the 

 year. We have invented machinery for suc- 

 cessfully and economically handling them. 

 There are several details essential to success 

 and we will furnish experienced men. The 

 soil or geological formation on which they are 

 growing is an element which needs to be con- 

 sidered in some cases. 



Blue-Red. Juniperus Virginiana glauca. 

 Occasionally in fields of Red Cedar is seen 

 one with a decided blue foliage added to the 

 blue color of the berries. 



White. Chamacyparis sphceroidea; syn., 

 Cupressus thuyoides. The White Cedar 

 native to the coast swamps from Massa- 

 chusetts southward is distinct from the 

 White Cedar, or Arborvitae, from Maine to 

 Michigan. It is a tall, black-green pyramid 

 which can be seen along the Montauk 

 division of the Long Island railroad in 

 wet ground or next the salt meadows. It is 

 suitable to plant in such places. 



