SAVING THE RED CEDARS FOR OUR GARDENS 
R. B. JOHNSTON 
. . . “If Eves were made for seeing 
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being ” — Emerson 
f 1E-RE' is a growing tendency to favor the planting, for 
ornamental purposes, of trees that have more than one 
ftlKii P ur P ose > that not only give shade and add to the general 
SEIr (ip charm of a place, but that also serve in more practical 
ways: and thus the various fruit trees — Apples, Mulberries, 
Quinces, Peaches, Pears, and Nut trees — Hickories, Walnuts, 
Chestnuts— rival the Maples, Oaks, and Evergreens in popular 
esteem. Many of the trees de- 
sirable in a garden for their 
pictorial value have a host of 
enemies in the shape of disease 
or insects; some, transplanted 
from other climates, have not 
been able to develop resistant 
powers against new enemies; 
and some that are themselves 
resistant to disease are hosts for 
diseases that are fatal to other 
trees; wherefore they need at- 
tention in spraying, etc. if they 
are to be kept as ornamentals. 
An example of the latter is the 
Red Cedar long known as the 
host of the cedar-rust, from 
which the apple-rust and quince- 
rust are both contracted. The 
White-pine blister-rust comes to 
that tree from Currant and 
Gooseberry bushes. Black-rust 
of Wheat comes from the com- 
mon Barberry. The chestnut- 
blight, although not so extensive 
in its effects perhaps as the 
White-pine blister-rust, is more 
spectacular in its work and has 
destroyed many big stands of 
chestnut timber. There are 
numerous general enemies of 
fruit trees (both insects and dis- 
eases) which are fairly well 
known, but we need not despair 
of the use of such trees, for 
fortunately there are at hand 
preventives, controls, or rem- 
edies for most of the pests, and 
the common sprays (bordeaux 
mixture, arsenate of lead, and 
lime -sulphur) are used with 
beneficial effect. 
The estate and garden planter 
who wants Evergreens that will 
flourish without any care, how- 
ever, must turn his attention to 
a rather limited group of trees. 
The most favored of these are 
the Pines, Firs, Spruces, and 
Cedars. All are attractive and 
rank high in ornamental value. 
While all have enemies of one 
sort or another, these are gen- 
erally self confined, but others 
like the White-pine (with its 
blister-rust), and the Red Cedar (with its apple-rust) are among 
those whose diseases offer a menace to other trees. 
The Cedar which does not have cedar-rust, which disease 
often kills innumerable twigs, is the exception. The well-known 
“ cedar apples,” which frequently cluster thickly on the branches, 
are filled with tiny spores that are released under certain cli- 
matic conditions favorable to them. 
HE CEDAR AS A SHORE LINE ACCENT 
Against this unruffled sheet of water the staccato-like Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana), interest- 
ing in any landscape, is more arresting than usual. This particular bit of land happens to be near 
Huntington, L. I., but the Cedar ranges freely all along our coast from Nova Scotia tc Georgia 
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