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all right but never get so large. You can put them in wet 

 places, along gulleys, around rock-piles, or over banks, with 

 excellent effect. They thrive in any soil except limestone, or 

 where lime has been applied. The only thing they need is a 

 layer of leaf-mulch on the ground when they are planted. 

 Straw will do, or any other vegetable matter. If it blows 

 away, weight it down with some dirt or stones. You should 

 set a plant about every 2 feet, and have two or three rows 

 of them. 



Catawba. Bears large white flowers in clusters rather 

 late in spring. Every branchlet carries dozens. Leaves are 

 extra long and narrow, in clusters at the ends of branches. 



Purple. Like Catawba in every way except in color of 

 flowers. 



Ponticum. Bears purple flowers and grows 10 feet high, 

 but is not so hardy as the other kinds. This variety requires 

 light protection from the severest freezing, but the others 

 will live in any situation. 



Mountain LaureL One of the most ornamental shrubs 

 that can be planted. It will grow almost anywhere, in either 

 dry or wet soil, just so it has a thick mulch of leaves or straw. 

 It is naturally a swampy plant, and is an evergreen, of course. 

 The flowers are masses of pink and rose-color. Sometimes 

 called Calico Bush. 



Mountain Fetter Bush. A thick little evergreen shrub 

 with dark green leaves that have black dots, and showy 

 flowers that come the very first thing in the spring. 



HEDGE PLANTS 



The benefits of hedges have been explained sufficiently to 

 show that they, like shade trees, will well pay the planter 

 in actual cash and in satisfaction. Hedges mean prosperity. 

 When you plant hedges, you do more than improve the looks 

 of your place — you start something that has a great and 

 good influence. 



The kind of hedge you should plant depends on where you 

 live, the size you want it to be, how quickly you want it to 

 grow, etc. Privet usually is best. Barberry is good when you 

 want a hedge that you can step over, while evergreens make 

 hedges 6 to 10 feet high and 8 to 12 feet thick. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET 



This is the universal hedge in the East, and that fact proves 

 that it has greater merit under ordinary conditions for this 

 purpose than any other plant. For live fences at village, town 

 and country homes it is the very best of all materials. On 

 public grounds of all kinds, such as at schools, in parks and 

 cemeteries, along roads and paths, on factory grounds, and 

 on newly subdivided areas near towns, nothing else can be 

 used in its place, and in this place it is indispensable. 



In one year the plants will get to be 3 feet high; in two 

 years, if not trimmed, 6 to 8 feet; and the third season they 

 make a 12-foot screen that you can not see through. The 

 making of either this tall screen in such a short time or of a 

 thick, low hedge depends entirely upon the trimming. 



Privet thrives in any soil, and particularly well near the 

 Atlantic shore; but we know of perfect hedges in the Rocky 

 Mountains, 6,000 feet above the sea. The plants are beauti- 

 ful because of their fragrant white flowers and their berries, 

 as well as for their form. 



The leaves are dark and glossy, about 2 inches long, and 



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