HARRISON'S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 



EVERGREENS 



We will note briefly the chief uses of evergreens, and tell 

 why it pays to plant them. One or several of the following 

 kinds are adapted to making windbreaks, hedges, shelter- 

 groups, ground-covers, borders and beds, and are also fine 

 for specimen planting. 



Windbreaks are a modern necessity since we have come to 

 understand how they protect our houses and our barns from 

 cold, from strong winds, from snow-drifts, from fire and from 

 hot sun — how they save paint, protect stock in pastures 

 from cold, heat, hail, wind and rain, prevent spring frosts 

 and winter freezing in gardens, orchards and fields, save fruit 

 from blowing off, and lessen evaporation of moisture from 

 land within a couple of hundred yards in their lee. Spruces 

 and Pines are the best trees for windbreaks, unless you are 

 after appearance more than service, when Arborvitaes and 

 Firs can be used. Mix the different kinds. 



Evergreen hedges make stronger fences than locust posts 

 and woven wire, and very much more durable ones. These 

 hedges are very striking and beautiful. No other kind of 

 planting will add more to the looks of a place. Hemlock is 

 the best of all evergreens for hedges — makes the best-looking 

 ones, the strongest and most permanent. American Arbor- 

 vitse and Norway Spruce come next — -the former for low hedges 

 and the latter for higher, broader ones. 



Shelter-groups come in the same class as windbreaks, both 

 as regards use and beauty, and kinds of evergreens to select. 

 Close to your home or barn they will protect and shade it. 

 In pastures they will mean many dollars to you because of 

 protection they give stock in all kinds of weather. Many 

 farmers are enlarging their shelter-groups and making timber- 

 blocks of them, at the same time producing a valuable product 

 and using waste land. The timber will grow at the rate of 

 $10 an acre per year. There is no mistake about this. For 

 this purpose the three Pines and Norway and Douglas 

 Spruces are the best trees. Mix in some oak and ash seedlings. 



When it comes to planting about a home, some wonder- 

 fully fine effects can be made with the two or three dozen 

 different evergreens. There are kinds that reach 75 feet 

 high, with pointed tops, like Douglas Spruce, or the Firs, 

 Hemlock, etc.; others are just as high, but have round or 

 irregular heads, like the Pines, some of the Spruces and the 

 Cedars. Most of these tall trees are very dark green. Large 

 spaces are required for these trees, and in smaller yards and 

 lawns medium-sized evergreens are needed. White Fir, 

 White Spruce, Blue Spruce, and some of the Arborvitaes are 

 adapted to such planting. Hemlock, again, will do well here, 

 and is not less beautiful than when given plenty of room. 



In smaller yards and lawns as well as in larger ones, there 

 are opportunities for lining paths and making borders and 

 beds of evergreens. No other kind of planting is more at- 

 tractive to you, who live in the home, than a lot of little 

 evergreens in a row, or a clump. A conifer bed 10 by 30 feet 

 is a wonderfully attractive thing. In it you can plant a half- 

 dozen of each different kind of evergreen — the Golden Arbor- 

 vitaes, Retinosporas, Junipers, the bluish tinged Spruces, 

 Firs and Cedars, the dark and light green Spruces and Pines 

 and Firs, all contrasting splendidly with each other and with 

 their surroundings. For the best effect less of the brilliant 

 yellow foliage is required than of the dark green, so it is a 

 good plan to put a border of the common kinds around the 

 bed, then set the unusual colored trees in the center. All the 

 year round such a bed will attract attention. 



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