THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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Two other hollies worth growing are: Ilex 

 crenata, doubtfully hardy north of New York, 

 which can be used for hedges like box, which 

 it much resembles in general effect, but it 

 grows up in less time; and inkberry (/. 

 glabra), which is the one evergreen shrub for 

 the North that will stand exposure to sun. 



THE SOUTHERN WEALTH 



Go to the South for luxury in evergreen 

 growth! It would take our whole number 

 of The Garden Magazine to tell of them. 

 Fewer conifers flourish than in the colder 

 North. Magnolias, rhododendrons, Indian 

 azaleas, Japanese barberries, all the box 

 varieties, grow there. Camellias grow to trees, 

 and vie with the magnolias in their showy 

 display. There are gardenias, almost sicken- 

 ing in their fragrance, Eleagnus Japonicus in 

 many varieties, privets, myrtles, olive, and 

 tea. Relieved of the trying winter conditions 

 that make it practically impossible to grow 

 the favorite evergreens of England in the 

 North, the laurel and holly both flourish in 

 Southern sections. 



TRAILING AND UNDERGROWTH EVERGREENS 



English ivy 

 Trailing euonymus 

 Periwinkle or running 



myrtle 

 Partridge berry 

 Mountain spurge 



Hall's honeysuckle 



Hedera Helix 

 Euonymus radicans 



Vinca minor 



Mitchella repens 

 Pachysandra terminalis 

 Lonicera Japonica, var. 

 Halliana 



30. Box ready to move. The big point in mov- 

 ing any tree or shrub is to preserve the fine or feeding 

 roots. It is only by special treatment, begun before 

 the moving is to be done, that so many roots as 

 these may be secured 



As a ground cover under trees nothing is 

 better than the trailing myrtle, which has 

 waxy, dark-green foliage and blue five-lobed 

 flowers about an inch across. English ivy is 

 not to be relied upon north of Philadelphia. 

 It never should be planted on an east or south 

 exposure. Under the shelter of tall trees 

 English ivy will sometimes grow tolerably 

 well as far north as Massachusetts, but gen- 

 erally it ekes out a precarious existence all 

 through New England. 



The best evergreen vine for the porch 

 is Hall's honeysuckle. It is excellent for 

 rough carpeting in exposed knolls and for 

 drapery on the face of a wall or rocky 

 cut. It will crowd out nearly everything 

 else that grows, and in the more trimly 

 kept portions of the garden may become 

 somewhat of a nuisance if allowed full 

 freedom of growth. 



The mountain spurge (Pachysandra) is a 

 welcome cover plant. Thriving equally in 

 the shade or exposed to sun and in any 

 ordinary soil, its thick, bright-green leaves, 

 always fresh looking, make it a valuable 

 plant for the amateur. It makes a carpet 

 about six inches above the ground. Like 

 the trailing myrtle, it solves the cover problem 

 under trees and shrubs where nothing — hardy 

 weeds even — will grow. 



If you want a shiny green carpet varied with 

 red berries that will last all winter, plant the 

 partridge berry. It can be collected from the 

 woods and also bought from nurserymen. 



Box the ideal broad-leaved evergreen for English formal gardens, but precariously hardy in the northeastern United States, where the erratic winter K; 

 grand old specimens has caused much heartbreaK and the loss of many thousands of dollars. A specimen IiKe this is worth fifty dollars or more 



