48tt AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



or Saintfoin, is also useful in this way, its flowers and foliage 

 being quite pretty, and its roots rmiuing so that it is almost 

 impossible to destroy them. Hops answer a similar pm-pose. 



EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



FOURTEEN KINDS. 



1. Arbor A^it.e, American (Savin), Thuya Occidentalis ; 

 Chinese, Tlimja Orientalis ; Siberian, Tlaiya SiLerica. All 

 pretty evergreens, often used for hedges ; but the Chinese is 

 rather tender, and unsightly in winter. 



"2. Balsam Fir, American, Picea halsamea. A common 

 but fine tree. 



3. Box-tree, Buxus arborescens, &e. A fine ornamental 

 evergreen, with silver or golden striped varieties, resembling 

 somewhat the common garden liox, but of freer and lai'ger 

 growth, and not so hardy. Increased by layers. 



4. Cedar, Indian, Cedrus deodara. A fine drooping ev- 

 ergreen, growing late in the fall, and often injm'ed by the cold 

 of winter at the North. 



5. Cedar, Red, Junqxru.s Virginiana. Too common to 

 be esteemed as it deserves. Good for ornamental hedges, and 

 excellent for shelter. 



6. Cedar OF Lebanon, Cedrus Lihani : Silver-leaved, C'e- 

 drus arijenfea. Fine trees, but of slow growth. The Cedai- 

 of Lebanon is, however, worthy of cultivation for its associa- 

 tions. Its seeds are borne in fine lai'ge cones. 



7. Cutoneaster, Small-leaved, Cotoneastcr microplr/jlla. 

 A small, pretty shrub. Increased by layers. 



s. Holly, American, /?ex ojxica ; Em'opean, 7?ex aquifo- 

 littjii. The European Holly has a very deep green foliage, and 

 the variegated kinds are pretty and desirable wherever the win- 

 ters are not too severe. They are grafted upon stocks of the 

 green varieties, generally by tongue-grafting, a little extra care 

 being used in the operation. 



U. ;\I\H0XIA, Holly-leaved, 2Iahorda aquifdla. A showy 

 shrub three or fom- feet high, especially gay in the fall, but 

 ha\-ing its foliage injm-ed in the winter at the North, miless 

 covered from the sun. Increased by layers. 



