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HEDGE PLANTS— CALIFORNIA PRIVET. 



( LIGUSTRUM OVALIFOLIUM, ) 



Privet we consider the most popular of all hedge plants, and 

 decidedly the finest and best of all for forming an ornamental 

 hedge, its foliage being so abundant as to produce a wall of the 

 deepest richest green. It can almost be called an evergreen, as its 

 foliage is not shed until late in the Winter, and then only in an ex- 

 posed position. We mention some of its merits: It is very hardy, 

 easily and quickly pruned; it will grow almost anywhere; can be kept 

 down to 18 inches, or you can let it grow, if a screen is required, to 

 15 feet high. You may have it narrow or wide. 



Managbment.— As a general rule of guidance we offer the following brief 

 hints on their management: After thoroughly working the soil of a strip at least 

 6 feet wide and as long as the hedge is to extend, open a 

 trench through the middle of the strip, and with a careful 

 person to hold and range the plants, let one or more as- 

 sistants thoroughly pulverize and fill in the soil about the 

 roots. Before setting, dip each plant in a thin puddle of 

 mud, and place evergreens from 15 to 18 inches apart in the 

 row; deciduous shrubs, including California Privet, should 

 be but 9 inches apart. 



PRICE OF CALIFORNIA PRIVET. 



Dozen Hundred Thousand 



2 to 3 feet $0.60 |4.00 |35.00 



18 inches to 2 feet 50 3.00 25.00 



12 inches to 18 inches. .40 2.50 20.00 



Siberian Arbor Vitae. — This valuable variety has 

 dense compact foliage of pure green color, even in 

 winter. It grows more slowly than the American, 

 and needs less trimmings. 



Spruce, Norway. — A lofty elegant tree of perfect 

 pyramidal habit, remarkably elegant and rich; as 

 it gets age has fine graceful, pendulous branches; 

 is exceedingly picturesque and beautiful; very 

 popular, and deservedly so, and should be largely 

 planted. One of the best evergreens for hedges if 

 properly trimmed yearly. 



PRICE OF NORWAY SPRUCE. 



Siberian Arbor Vitae. 



Each. Dozen. Hundred. 



2 to 3 feet $0.40 $4.00 $30.00 



3 to 4 feet 50 5.00 40.00 



10 to 15 inches.. .10 1.00 10.00 



NORWAY SPRUCE. 



