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ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
young’s weeping birch. 
EVERGREENS. 
Arbor Vitae (Thuja). 
AMERICAN (Occidentalism — This plant is, all things considered, the finest Evergreen for hedges. 
It is very hardy, and easily transplanted, few or no plants ever failing if properly trained speci- 
mens are obtained. It grows rapidly and with little care, or rather by easy management, it soon 
forms a most beautiful hedge, very dense, and perfectly impervious to the sight. Of course it 
is never adapted to turn stock, but it forms a most desirable and ornamental screen to divide the 
lawn from other parts of the ground, or for any other purpose. 
COMPACTA (Parsons’) — Foliage light green : habit dwarfish and quite compact 
