MARKET NURSERY WORK 



VOL. VI 



DECORATIVE PLANTS, TREES 

 AND SHRUBS 



CHAPTER I 



THE HARD-WOODED DEPARTMENT 



WITH the strongest possible desire to render this, our final volume, 

 as little like to a catalogue as possible, we shall have to refer to such 

 a large number of plants, shrubs and trees, in varying classes, as to 

 make the fulfilment of that desire, to say the least, difficult. 



The subject matter of the following pages is not in any sense a 

 mere gathering together of fragments, but deals, as a whole, with 

 departmental subjects of primary importance to any general nursery, 

 and it is only as a matter of convenience that we are classing them 

 together under the cognomen " Decorative " or " Ornamental." 

 By far the most important of these are those shrubs and trees which 

 are so generally used in the furnishing and decoration of outside 

 grounds and gardens and for which there is an increasing and 

 constant demand. We feel, too, that this department has been some- 

 what neglected by the writers of manuals, who have more often 

 dealt much fuller with indoor " decorative " pot plants than with 

 outdoor and more permanent subjects, presumably because they 

 appealed most. 



As a fair test of the great part ornamental trees and shrubs 

 play in the business of a nurseryman, we would invite any interested 

 enquirer to pay a visit to some well-appointed nursery and note for 

 himself the amount of space allotted to them and the care taken of 

 them. Rule out all forest and fruit trees and roses, you shall find 

 that practically everything else would come into this class. 



