Center Point, Iowa 
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Evergreens 
tv,<. host kind of evergreens to plant in this state for 
The following species are t^_« ]';5i.'''oth°ng S add more to the value of 
able for evergreens. 
DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTING AND CARING FOR EVERGREENS. 
Handling. Evergreen roots "-^t always be ver^^ o^arefum- ^^t^i^Tr J^s! Tn 
the hole. . 
Planting. Dig holes large, that the trees are no^^^ a^^^US 
the battom of the hole, and arranging the root^^ '=the t>ee occasionally as the filling is 
and among them with your '^^''^^^^^^ hold the tree upright 
going on, to settle the soil ^^n the i oots a e w When this is done 
treading the soil very firmly f 1''^™! ^old half a pail of water; till this 
you have a basin or a h^le around the t .<^«„th^j\eT the water has soaked away, fill the 
rall'n ^iJS go'^oT.nr^ow ^^i\' withrt' m°icii tramping. 
watering. The '-"th of August ^^^^^he critical pein^od f^ 
greens, for during this month, ""V'l^/\®f^f„"°^f„e not been plentiful the trees should 
tre1atte\%\Tof ^iu^';%^n^rco"nJrnrek\S?L%'lf tJi'/pl^i^d of d.-outh. 
Cultivation. Thorough cultivation 
is very essential to the growth ot 
vegetation of all kinds and nothing 
appreciates it more than evergreens 
They should be cultivated at least 
once a week up to August 1, when 
a good mulching of partially rotted 
hay or straw may be given. Care 
should be taken not to use green 
manure as it is detrimental. 
Seedlings. The largest sizes of 
seedlings may be planted and treated 
as above; smaller sizes should be 
planted in well prepared beds with 
a dibble, and sliaded the first season. 
Windbreaks. Plant spruces, firs 
and arbor vitaes in single rows, foui 
to six feet apart; doulile rows ten 
feet apart; Scotch and bull pines 
single row, eight feet and double 
row ten to twelve feet; white pine, 
siiigle row, eight feet; double row, 
twelve to fourteen feet. 
Hedges. ■ Arbor vitae, ten to 
eighteen inches, fifteen inches apart; 
eighteen to twenty-four inche.s 
eighteen inches apart; two feet and 
larger, two feet apart. Spruce and 
'"'B ■ , ^ apart, ac- 
cedar, two to four feet 
cording to size. 
PINES 
White Pine (Pinus strobus)— One of 
the best, largest and longest lived 
Evergreens. The foliage is warm 
lie-ht green, often with a bluish 
tinge. The leaves are in fives, 
three to four inches long, very soft 
and delicately fragrant. After get- 
ting well started it is the most 
rapid grower of all Evergreens 
White Pluc. 
