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and greater cost too often combine to make the weedier privet a 

 favorite. 



Among evergreens, more fame attaches to the name of box 

 than to any other kind of hedge. It is trulv the aristocrat among 

 hedges, and an oUi specimen commands respect and veneration 

 from a hurrving generation, which appreciates to the iuW its 

 meager inheritance but fails to piovide for its chihiren any more 

 generoLisIv. 



It is onlv human to want immediate returns on an investment, 

 to plant for an earlv ett'ect, to be impatient of waiting for results; 

 and vet a garden should be planned with some eve to permanence 

 as well, and the poplars that go in because of their rapid grouth 

 should be tempered with timber trees to give dignity to the garden 

 a decade hence, and a beech hedge started whenever possible to 

 overawe the privet bv and bv, or one of hawthorn, which will 

 cover its twisted old stems \\ ith white blossoms in the spring and 

 red apples in the fall. 



To return t() evergreen hedges, both dwarf arbor \iVx and the 

 vews (taxus bre\'if(dia and brevifolia cuspidata) make good low 

 hedges; and hemlock, arbor vit;r, and cedar are all more or less 

 dependable high hedges. Of these arbor vita' turns rusty in the 

 winter and hemlock sometimes "kills back," but at the height of 

 its glory hemlock probablv comes nearest to possessing that dark, 

 soliii green appearance of English yew hedges, \^■hich is so much 

 the envy of us in our drier climate. 



lle.x — of somewhat doubtful hardihood in Northern winters — 



