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Follow this with each course of roots, having calculated that 

 your upper tier will be four inches below the level of the ground 

 and your tree with one careful watering like rain — not inch jets 

 — and a mulch of four inches of new mown grass, straw, saw- 

 dust or tanbark, is all right Not a stake is needed. Having 

 said so much touching the evergreens, we shall now take up our 



CONDENSED DESCRIPTIONS. 



American Arbor Vitce. — This is commonly known as White 

 Cedar, but it does not belong botanically to that class. It is a 

 hardy evergreen, conical, upright, uniform ; excellent for screens 

 and hedges and can, by clipping annually, be grown in any form. 

 Small plants of it, by judicious yearly pruning, can be kept at a 

 height of three to four feet, with a spread of thirty feet diameter. 



American Weeping Arbor Vitce. — This is of small, say half 

 natural habit in size, of a drooping habit ; rare and beautiful. 



Arbor Vitce — Var Ericoides. — Is a dwarf variety, with heath- 

 like foliage ; suited only to rock work, or dome groups of dwarf 

 evergreens. 



Arbor VitcB—Hoveyi — This is a variety of our common 

 American ; more compact and dwarf in its habit 



Arbor Vitce — Maculata. — A blotched leaved variety of the 

 American ; only of value as a curiosity. 



Arbor Vitce — Plicata. — A variety with a dark green foliage ; 

 untested. 



Arbor Vitce — Plicata Minima. — Said to be a dwarf of the 

 foregoing. 



Arbor Vitce — Siberica. — This is one of the hardiest, most 

 perfect in growth and habit of the whole class of Thujas. It 

 matters not where it is placed, or what you want of it; a 

 knowledgeable person can use it in any form or position. There 

 is a variety with variegated foliage, suited to a novelty tree or 

 plant grower. 



