62 



Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. Shrubs 



Tartarian Maple on the same estate as the Japanese Maples illustrated on page 61, forming a screen to the service 

 entrance. Early in autumn it is the most brilliant and clear red of any foliage on the estate. It grows quickly to the 

 size shown. It is an excellent shrub for such mass planting, harmonizing with native growth or with the delicate 

 Japanese Maples. The two Oaks appearing above the shrubs have grown twice as fast as those in the grass. 



Japanese Maple, Tartarian, continued 



high and keeps in healthy and vigorous condition, 

 being hardy far north of this latitude. Its foliage 

 harmonizes well with our native Oaks and Maples 

 on one hand, and with the delicately cut-leaved 

 varieties of Japanese Maples on the other. There- 

 fore, it is as useful as the Dogwood in fringing 

 woodland and excellent to form a background to 

 Japanese M'aples and flowering shrubs. For 

 hedges it is well adapted, and is one answer to 

 the frequent request for a hedge that is not 

 Privet and yet equally rapid in growth. 



Orange, Hardy 



(Citrus trifoliata; syn., Limonia) 



A new hedge plant of value from here southward. 

 On a sandy hillside at Westbury, plants have grown 

 8 feet high and 4 feet broad. It is such a thickly 

 interlacing mass of needle-tipped thorns that a 

 cat could not get through, and even a snake would 

 have to use caution. It is hardy where it makes a 

 moderate growth and the wood is well ripened. 

 If highly manured it will make a late growth and 

 the tips winter-kill. 



Privet Ligustrum 



California. Ligustrum ovalifolium. This needs 

 no description. The foliage is a dark, waxy 

 green, the growth vigorous and able to withstand 

 or overcome quickly widely varying conditions, 

 and is more rapidly increased in quantity than 

 any other shrub. At the seaside it is the most 

 popular shrub that nurserymen offer. Its popu- 

 larity as a hedge plant is undiminished. The natural 

 habit of the plant is V-shaped, and therefore 



Privet, California, continued 



hedges are liable to be thin and open at the base 

 unless properly started and pruned. It is best to 

 plant 6 inches deeper than it stood in the nursery. 

 This results in several stems at the ground level. 

 It should be pruned so that the base is wider than 

 the top, then the sun shining on these lower 

 branches encourages their growth and keeps the 

 hedge thick at the bottom. Privet is frequently 

 called for to make immediate, tall screens on 

 account of its dense growth and habit of holding 

 foliage late in winter. We have large, old plants, 

 6 to 9 feet high, suitable for this purpose. 



Dome-shaped California Privet. We have trained 

 plants about ten years old in the form of a hemi- 

 sphere, solid at the base. They are 6 feet high 

 and 7 feet broad and eminently suitable to plant 

 on a large terrace, in a formal garden or lawn. 

 They have been accurately trimmed with a 

 mechanical form of our invention which makes 

 them uniform and dense. 



Standards of California Privet. These are 

 trained by the same machine as the last. They 

 have a stem 2 to 6 feet high and a head 2 to 4 feet 

 in diameter which is flat at the base, symmetrical 

 and dense. They can be used for formal garden, 

 terrace, or planting in tubs, similar to Bay Trees. 



Arches of California Privet. These arches con- 

 sist of two plants trained to an iron form 8 feet 

 high and 8 feet broad. They are suitable for the 

 center path of a flower-garden or for arching a 

 gate to a garden or lawn. Another way to use 

 them in garden design is to put them end to end, 

 forming a series of arches, making a partial screen 

 to two portions of a garden. These have been 

 trained for a number of years end are mature and 

 solid in effect, 



