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however, should stand at least twenty-five feet 
apart, and be allowed to develop individual 
strength. Do not trim up any of these trees, but 
let them set flat on the ground. The arbor-vite 
and the hemlock can be planted more closely, so 
that the limbs interlock, as in a low hedge. Select, 
as arule, an evergreen which is native to your own 
section, and can be obtained for the digging. In 
New Hampshire and Maine I should take the 
white pine. What magnificent windbreaks has 
nature made of these trees, on the farms which 
touch the mountains of the Granite State. 
Among other less common but really excellent 
evergreens for our purposes are: (1) The golden 
arbor-vite. This variety is of Chinese origin, and 
is very beautiful with its yellowish-green foliage. 
I do not think it quite hardy north of New York. 
(2) Two small growing varieties of arbor-vitee with 
foliage golden and beautiful, are the Hovey and the 
George Peabody. (3) The retinosporas are all 
excellent, but two of them make beautiful bushes 
or small trees, with rich golden color and a plume- 
like foliage. ‘These are retinospora plumosa aurea 
and the gracilis aurea. (4) Among the most up- 
right growing evergreens there are some fine ones; 
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