BROAD-LEAVED SHRUBS 



producing its blossoms apparently in greater numbers 

 each season. 



In the woods by the great South Bay, the little 

 laurel, Lambkill, K. angustifolia, can also be seen 

 thriving amazingly and sending out its deeply colored 

 flowers in numbers sufficient to brighten their whole 

 surroundings. Shade and a rich, loamy bed fertilized 

 with fallen leaves is the gift of Dame Nature when 

 caring for her rhododendrons, azaleas, and laurels. 

 In the garden one can do no better than to try to 

 emulate her ways. 



Laurel is of comparatively recent introduction 

 into the garden, owing, perhaps, to the idea that, like 

 the trailing arbutus, it is difficult to move successfully. 

 Expert nurserymen, however, now grow the plants 

 so that they can be transplanted with but a small 

 percentage of loss, if any at all. 



Plants not less lovely than the laurels, to grow under 

 the shade of rhododendrons or large azaleas, are the 

 Andromedas floribunda and Japonica. Their delicate 

 flowers appear as if molded in wax, while the intense 

 greenness of their foliage lasts over the winter. 



This power of evergreens to endure is a charm that 

 never varies. When other shrubs succumb, they hold 

 out bravely, undaunted by the most unaccountable 

 of all combatants, the weather. Sometimes this 

 attribute of evergreenness is found in plants of delicate 

 appearance and dainty blossoms. 



The little Daphne cneorum, with its tiny leaves 

 and pink-faced flowers, is among the most green of 

 evergreens. It is hardy and sweet and so attractive 



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