132 Milady's House Plants 



The foliage not getting any nourishment fjom the 

 frozen roots and being compelled by the warm sun 

 to give up day by day some of its life blood by evapor- 

 ation, soon begins to turn brown, curl up and event- 

 ually falls off. It is safe to say that if the roots could 

 be kept from freezing, the tops of all our native hardy 

 evergreens would endure our Winters with little 

 injury. 



Euonymus radicans has gone through the Winter 

 with little permanent injury, still after the middle of 

 January it looks very sere and shabby. Among 

 coniferous evergreens the Junipers, especially the 

 Chinese species, seem to be the most hardy, but even 

 they go the way of all plants. 



Shrubs in Cold Vestibules 



In a cold vestibule that has a fair amount of day- 

 light, but not much sun, and is really cold, that is, 

 not quite freezing at night and not above 50° in the 

 day on an average, almost any of the hardy shrubs 

 win survive and may even thrive. Boxwood, Euony- 

 mus, both the bushy European species and the trail- 

 ing Japanese kind, European Laurels and Junipers, 

 Spruces, Pines, in fact any of the conifers are suitable 

 for such situations. It is necessary that all should be 

 pot grown and not just dug up from the nursery at 

 the last minute. All that has been said about water- 

 ing and drainage for other plants applies equally to 

 these. 



