SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 



Common Juniper. A dwarf tree with a very short trunk 

 and branches that grow straight out and then turn up. 

 Specimens get to be 5 or 6 feet broad and only 2 or 3 feet high. 



Douglas Golden Juniper. Like a small, ordinar>- Red 

 or Blue Cedar, except with the current year's growth of 

 bright yellow. 



EVERGREEN HEDGE PLANTS 



In certain places where a wide and high hedge can be used, 

 the most beautiful of all are made with Hemlock, American 

 .\rborv-itae or Norway Spruce. See the descriptions of these 

 trees on pages 44 and 46. The Laurels and Rhododendrons also 

 make hedges that are splendidly fitted for certain situations. 



RHODODENDRON, LAUREL, ETC. 



The Broad-Leaved Evergreens 



Rightly considered, Rhododendrons are shrubs, but as 

 they are selected more often for their evergreen quality than 

 for their size, we consider them as evergreens. They are 

 ver>- useful and are simply wonderful in their flowers as well 

 as in their thick cover of leaves. The ordinary Mountain 

 Laurel of the Alleghanies is a member of the Rhododendron 

 family. There are a dozen or more different kinds. The 

 common deciduous Azalea is a Rhododendron, a fact which 

 often is overlooked because the Azalea sheds its leaves. 



Rhododendrons naturally are at home under trees in half- 

 shaded places or where the sun never reaches them at all. 

 They bloom best where they get a little sun, but they thrive 

 even in the deepest shade. Out in the full sun they grow 



This clump of Evergreens and Maples, in a vacant corner where a 

 pasture yard joins the barnyard, protects the bam and screens the house. 

 One hundred Pines, Spruces, Arborvitaes and Firs, and a dozen Maples 

 in this particular planting cost, in sizes best suited, about $32. Those 

 seen would cost no more than $5. 



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