118 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
dens? It is only a matter of knowing and 
choosing right — and of being a little less 
ardent in the pursuit of novelty. 
Of the great cone bearing class of trees 
which hold their leaves all winter — the ever- 
greens of common speech — there are not many 
that are suited to the small garden except in 
their early youth. Evergreens, though slow 
growing and so not large for a number of 
years after planting, are nearly all large trees 
when their full growth is attained. White 
cedar or arborvitae — Thuya occidentalis — 
which attains to fifty or sixty feet at maturity 
is one of the best for small space, as it retains 
its narrow form even when full grown and so 
is not as large a tree as its height would seem 
to indicate. This and a small juniper — Junl- 
perus communis — which is less often a tree 
than a shrub in the wild, are really about the 
only species of native evergreen suitable to the 
garden of the suburbs. 
Out of the countless nursery varieties of 
these it is possible to get a considerable varia- 
tion in appearance, however; but variation of 
just this character is exactly one of the things 
which the best standards of planting avoid. 
Hence the grouping of small evergreens which 
is so enthusiastically advocated by some is 
