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Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y.— Shrubs 
Tartarian Maple on the same estate as the Japanese Maples illustrated on page 61, forming a screen to the service 
entrance. Early in autumn it is the most brilliant and clear red of any foliage on the estate. It grows quickly to the 
size shown. It is an excellent shrub for such mass planting, harmonizing with native growth or with the delicate 
Japanese Maples. The two Oaks appearing above the shrubs have grown twice as fast as those in the grass. 
Privet, California, continued 
hedges are liable to be thin and open at the base 
unless properly started and pruned. It is best to 
plant 6 inches deeper than it stood in the nursery. 
This results in several stems at the ground level. 
It should be pruned so that the base is wider than 
the top, then the sun shining on these lower 
branches encourages their growth and keeps the 
hedge thick at the bottom. Privet is frequently 
called for to make immediate, tall screens on 
account of its dense growth and habit of holding 
foliage late in winter. We have large, old plants, 
6 to 9 feet high, suitable for this purpose. 
Dome-shaped California Privet. We have trained 
plants about ten years old in the form of a hemi- 
sphere, solid at the base. They are 6 feet high 
and 7 feet broad and eminently suitable to plant 
on a large terrace, in a formal garden or lawn. 
They have been accurately trimmed with a 
mechanical form of our invention which makes 
them uniform and dense. 
Standards of California Privet. These are 
trained by the same machine as the last. They 
have a stem 2 to 6 feet high and a head 2 to 4 feet 
in diameter which is flat at the base, symmetrical 
and dense. They can be used for formal garden, 
terrace, or planting in tubs, similar to Bay Trees. 
Arches of California Privet, These arches con- 
sist of two plants trained to an iron form 8 feet 
high and 8 feet broad. They are suitable for the 
center path of a flower-garden or for arching a 
gate to a garden or lawn. Another way to use 
them in garden design is to put them end to end, 
forming a series of arches, making a partial screen 
to two portions of a garden. These have been 
trained for a number of years and are mature and 
solid in effect, 
Japanese Maple, Tartarian, continued f 
high and keeps in healthy and vigorous condition, 
being hardy far north of this latitude. Its foliage 
harmonizes well with our native Oaks and Maples 
on one hand, and with the delicately cut-leaved 
varieties of Japanese Maples on the other. There- 
fore, it is as useful as the Dogwood in fringing 
woodland and excellent to form a background to 
Japanese Maples and flowering shrubs. For 
hedges it is well adapted, and is one answer to 
the frequent request for a hedge that is not 
Privet and yet equally rapid in growth. 
Orange, Hardy 
(Citrus trifoliata; syn., Limonia) 
A new hedge plant of value from here southward. 
On a sandy hillside at Westbury, plants have grown 
8 feet high and 4 feet broad. It is such a thickly 
interlacing mass of needle-tipped thorns that a 
cat could not get through, and even a snake would 
have to use caution. It is hardy where it makes a 
moderate growth and the wood is well ripened. 
If highly manured it will make a late growth and 
the tips winter-kill. 
Privet • Ligustrum 
California. Ligustrum ovalifolium. This needs 
no description. The foliage is a dark, waxy 
green, the growth vigorous and able to withstand 
or overcome quickly widely varying conditions, 
and is more rapidly increased in quantity than 
any other shrub. At the seaside it is the most 
popular shrub that nurserymen offer. Its popu- 
larity asa hedge plantis undiminished. The natural 
habit of the plant is V-shaped, and therefore 
