TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



Euonymus radicans growing on the 

 trunk of a Locust tree at the residence of 

 Mr, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Westbury, 

 Long Island. It should be planted by 

 the thousand this way. 



BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS 



BOXWOOD, continued 



Dwarf Box (Box Edging). B. sempervirens, var. suffruti- 

 cosa. The old-fashioned garden border, usually grow- 

 ing about 6 to 8 inches high. In open and exposed 

 gardens these had best be protected during the winter by 

 inverting a trough of boards over them. They are also 

 damaged by flowers shading them during the summer. 

 It is well, in establishing a 

 Boxwood border to your 

 flower beds, to plant a reserve 

 supply to replace any that 

 does not live, rather than de- 

 pend upon the nurseries to 

 supply it, as it is not always 

 possible to procure it of the 

 same quality and density as 

 the plants in your border. 



The old Boxwood around 

 Long Island farmhouses is 

 of this variety. It has a 

 closer and more velvety tex- 

 ture than the Tree Box. In 

 seventy-five years it grows 

 8 feet high. 



DAPHNE 

 Garland Flower 



Cneorum. This is as 



worthy of affection as the 

 Trailing Arbutus. It is a 

 little rosette of evergreen 



foliage about i foot wide, bearing clusters of pink flowers in May and June 

 and again in late summer. The fragrance is spicy. 



Pyramidal Boxwoods in stone vases 



EUONYMUS 



Narrow-leaved. E. radicans. This is a plant which we 

 are much interested in popularizing, because it so combines 

 many excellent qualities. It should be used as exten- 

 sively here as the English Ivy is in England. It will climb 

 and cling fast and sends out long branches the same as 

 the English Ivy. It is not slow in its growth, for in a 

 few years it will become 20 feet high. If it has nothing to 

 climb upon, it will make a dense evergreen mat,_ rising 

 up in points about 2 feet high where the stems cling to- 

 gether. It is useful in this way on rocky banks and for 

 bordering groups of broad-leaved evergreens. Our stock 

 is grown from seed and is free 

 from the occasional variegated 

 branches seen on stock grown 

 from cuttings. As there is 

 not often an opportunity to 

 buy this in large quantities, 

 we recommend the careful 

 consideration of this stock. 



Broad-leaved. E. radi- 

 cans, vegetus. This has 

 round, thick^ leathery leaves 

 about I inch in diameter. 

 It will make a branch}^ little 

 bush 2 feet high, or it will 

 climb like a vine. Most 

 effective for use in front of 

 taller evergreens, or for plant- 

 ing at the base of the porch 

 where a low-growing plant is 

 required. Even when small, 

 it bears heavy crops of showy 

 red berries Uke those of the 

 Bittersweet to which it is 

 closely related. 



Euonymus radicans, var. 

 Carriere. A variety with a 

 growth very much like the 

 above, but having elliptical 

 leaves, larger than Radicans. 



HEATHER • Erica 



The Heather of Europe has been found growing wild 

 in New England, and there is no trouble to grow it here, 

 if shaded by Pine branches or similar covering in winter. 

 It is useful for bordering Rhododendron beds or the 

 flower-garden. The attractive bells can be picked almost 

 any time during summer. 



The fact that it grows in this country along the coast 

 in low grounds shows that it likes a moist, equable climate. 

 Many European plants thrive best in this country near 

 the coast, as at Southampton and Newport. In winter the 

 inland winds are dry; on the coast the winds are more moist. 



Euonymus radicans chngs closely to brick and stone and should be used by the thousand. 



It is perfectly hardy 



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