SHADE TREES AND E V E R G K L I. N S 



If the yard is not so deep from front to back as 

 it might be, you can increase the apparent depth 

 by planting the hedge a Httle wider apart in front 

 than at the rear, so that the Hnes seemingly con- 

 verge. Then trim it very regularly, making it 

 broad and low in front, but slowly growing higher 

 and narrower toward the back. Such a hedge will 

 make the yard look twice as deep as it really is, 

 yet it does not make the yard appear narrower 

 than normal. With this planting, as with most 

 others, you should be careful to keep an open space 

 in the center. 



The trees should shade the yard and house, 

 should shut off wind and view from other houses, 

 but should keep open the vistas to the sky-line. 

 If you can do so, plant trees so that this sky-line 

 will be broken — here a high tree, there a line of 

 lower ones, and so on. The length of time it takes 

 for Norway Maples to begin to give shade depends 

 on the size you plant. We can supply big ones 

 that will have a lo-foot trunk and a head almost 

 6 feet broad the first season, or little ones that will 

 need five or six years to reach this stage. These 

 larger trees are most handsome — square-shoul- 

 dered, straight, with a thick, leafy top that is a 

 delight. 



Two church plantings. At Georgetown, Del., ' upper i and at Berlin, 

 Md. lower . The first should cost about $io for fifty yards of 3-foot 

 Privet plants and three large Norway Maples. In the lower picture, church 

 and rectory have six Maples each and nearly one hundred yards of hedge, 

 which together should cost about $15. 



