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Arches for garden paths, entrance gates, or they can be placed 
end to end, as in the formal garden of Mr. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, 
L. I. These arches are accurately trained, and can be taken apart 
and shipped. See also privet arches on page 62. 
Tall Cedars in our nursery, ready for transplanting any time of the 
year. These 25 -foot trees can be safely shipped. 
Cedar Hedge, protecting the vegetable garden of Mr. W. Emlen 
Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, L. I. The Marsh Elder (Baccharis halmi- 
folia) growing on the Beech at high-tide level. See page 56. 
Red Cedar 
{Juniperus Virginiana) 
This is the cheapest evergreen for immedi- 
ate effect. It is among the best evergreens 
for sterile, sandy soil and salt spray. 
We have solved more landscape problems 
with the Red Cedar than with any other 
evergreen, not only because it is abundant 
and cheap, but because it is beautiful and 
rapid in growth. A plantation of young 
Cedars will gain in height as rapidly as the 
average Pine or Spruce. 
The illustrations show some of the uses to 
which it has been put. The service court and 
laundry paddock are problems at every 
house. Cedars will make screens for the least 
cost in the most dense and thorough manner, 
and occupy the least space. 
For screening buildings, we have planted 
hundreds of tall Cedars which have com- 
menced work right away and kept it up the 
year round and proven that they can keep it 
up for 50 or 100 years, for Cedars are very 
long-lived trees. It is amusing to see people 
try Lombardy Poplars for this work on 
unsuitable soils and exposures, because " Pop- 
lars are so quick, you know." The Poplars 
will frequently grow quickly for two or three 
years and then, like a tattered veil, commence 
to thin out and look worse than no planting. . 
Privacy and seclusion are fundamental 
demands of human nature in a civilized 
stage. There should be portions of the lawn, 
garden and porches secluded from intrusion. 
Rest and repose are nearly as essential as food 
The flower garden can be screened from the 
other portions of the ground and become 
practically an out-door room. 
We have thousands of Cedars ready. 
The gardens of Italy are famous for the 
Cypress, — tall columns of bronze-green. In 
the formal gardens on large, recently es- 
tablished country estates, we have repro- 
duced this effect with the native Red Cedars. 
In our Nursery are specimens trained for 
this purpose from 3 feet to 35 feet high. 
For bluffs and sand dunes, small Cedars 
should be planted thickly with Pitch Pine, 
Scotch Pine, Bayberry, Virginia Creeper, 
Goldenrod and other drought-resisting 
plants. 
We move native Cedars any month in the 
year. We have invented machinery for suc- 
cessfully and economically handling them. 
There are several details essential to success 
and we will furnish experienced men. The 
soil or geological formation on which they are 
growing is an element which needs to be con- 
sidered in some cases. 
Blue-Red. Juniperus Virginiana glauca. 
Occasionally in fields of Red Cedar is seen 
one with a decided blue foliage added to the 
blue color of the berries. 
White. Chamcecyparis sphceroidea; syn., 
Cupressus thuyoides. The White Cedar 
native to the coast swamps from Massa- 
chusetts southward is distinct from the 
White Cedar, or Arborvitae, from Maine to 
Michigan. It is a tall, black-green pyramid 
which can be seen along the Montauk 
division of the Long Island railroad in 
wet ground or next the salt meadows. It is 
suitable to plant in such places. 
