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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1910 



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To Make Ragged Evergreens 

 Dense and Symmetrical 



THE great object in the culture of evergreens 

 during their "juvenile period," which may 

 last thirty years, is to keep them dense and sym- 

 metrical. After that, a conifer naturally becomes 

 ragged because it enters the "transition period" 

 during which it loses many branches, and finally 

 it attains the "picturesque stage" when there is a 

 tuft of foliage at the top and the whole tree looks 

 like a battle-scarred veteran. 



Why is density so important ? Partly because its 

 opposite (thinness or scragginess) suggests poverty 

 and unhappiness. But the beauty of an evergreen 

 is greatly heightened by density or compactness 

 because the outline of the tree is then a perfect 

 cone or pyramid and because this crowding together 

 of the branches produces a lovelier texture — softer, 

 more feathery. 



There is only one way of transforming open 

 evergreens into dense ones, viz, by summer pruning. 

 The degree to which this should be done will be 

 debated until the crack of doom, for some people 

 like a high degree of formality, while others cannot 

 endure it. They say that Charles A. Dana used to 

 spend many hours on a step ladder in his famous 

 collection of evergreens trimming the trees until 

 they were as stiff as soldiers. The condition in 

 which I found the Dana trees a few years ago suits 

 my taste to perfection, for they had all the elegance 

 that comes from perfect density without the arti- 

 ficiality and stiffness that comes from perfect out- 

 line. 



Summer-prune your evergreens and have dense 

 compact specimens 



