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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ruralisms 
Group the Evergreens. —Few objects 
add so much to farm homes and country 
estates generally as well arranged coni¬ 
ferous evergreens. They relieve the mo¬ 
notony of Winter landscapes, and add 
variety and cheerfulness to the Summer 
aspect, besides furnishing very real pro¬ 
tection and shelter from driving storms. 
When used purely as wind-breaks they 
will naturally be thickly planted in ing was 
blocks or rows in the proper situations 
to shield buildings or fields from the 
most objectionable winds, but when used 
for ornament they may be placed where 
their presence is most effective. The 
older plan of dotting tall-growing firs, 
spruces and pines about the lawn, so 
that each specimen may have space for 
development has given way to the more 
pleasing method of grouping related or 
contrasting species together so that mas¬ 
sive effects are quickly obtained even 
at the expense of individual symmetry. 
Forest conditions are thus more closely 
imitated, and growth proceeds in a de¬ 
liberate but natural way. Overcrowding 
vidual was carefully considered, and 
combinations accordingly made. The 
tallest and most vigorous kinds were na¬ 
turally placed in the centers of the 
groups, and the dwarfer subjects out¬ 
side in rather irregular gradation, but 
care was taken to have the differing 
habits and tints of foliage contrast or 
harmonize as the case might be. The 
distances apart ranged from eight to 12 
feet, but might have been greater, as 
there is already need to take out a few 
crowding specimens. The actual plant- 
simple but laborious. The 
groups were first staked out and boles 
of sufficient size dug directly in the sod, 
placing the top soil by itself. The trees 
were dug with as good a ball of soil as 
the nature of the ground would allow, 
and immediately removed to the hole 
prepared for their reception. In plant¬ 
ing care was taken to maintain the same 
level of trunk and roots as before, and 
to prevent the cut ends of the leading 
roots from being tucked under the ball. 
They were disposed, as far as practic¬ 
able, in their natural directions, and top 
soil well firmed about them. The sub¬ 
soil was placed on top, but also well 
rammed down. A mulch of loose ma- 
is delayed by pruning, and finally nure completed the operation. Persist- 
averted by judicious thinning. Such as- ent dry weather followed, and there was 
sociation of varieties certainly, makes some wilting, but every tree lived. The 
more agreeable effects than the single or manure mulch was annually renewed for 
dot system of planting. Magnificent ex- three seasons, not as liberally as we 
amples of evergreen grouping, the work would like, but enough to keep the sur- 
of competent landscape gardeners, are face from drying out. There has been 
everywhere seen in parks and suburban no further care except to keep the grass 
places, but this method of planting is short immediately about the trees and 
not frequently enough employed by top a few too aspiring shoots, to make 
farmers and amateurs. When consider- the trunks more stocky. The Varieties 
ing the planting of conifers for home used were chiefly Red and White pines, 
ornament it may often be more desir- White, Norway and Douglas spruces, 
able to buy numbers of small specimens Nordmann’s and Cephalonian firs, and 
of the desired varieties for grouping American and Asiatic arbor vitses, but 
than a few large ones for individual there is also the local scrub pine of New 
planting. Jersey and the heavy-wooded Pinus 
Evergreens on the Rural Grounds. — pondcrosa of the West, together with 
Fig. 67, page 143, shows the present ,,, w ^ cws ’ 3 uni P ers > tw0 finely colored 
condition of a portion of the Rural ue S P'} 1( j cs >, an< ^ several Hemlock 
Grounds, planted chiefly to native coni- • s P I ”<'es. ie hemlocks and Red pines, 
fers, with a view to permanent decora- ° , } c , w !° ?’ P easc , 11S mos *> but we do 
tive effect. This southeast slope, facing no . 5 C iat < T ca \ c s P a]e an y ’ \ e 
the distant ocean, was about as bleak Ies now are established, 
a location, when it came under the writ- , S ia Y e some °f ^ le ra . rer Retinosporas 
er’s control, as could be imagined. a ” • , l cr 1X101 c expensive conifers and 
Though rather steep for economical till- ax , s in ft TOU P s .not shown in the fig- 
age it had been used in the past for " r f». > ut ‘ hou S h interesting, we do not 
nursery and trucking purposes. Fine consider them anywhere near as desirable 
peaches, melons and asparagus had been - 1 om pm pose as he st ronger grow- 
grown there in the days when the only k inds above mentioned. If no ser- 
transportation to New York markets, £“? occur 11 we the ? S ~ 
40 miles away, was by means of sailing Pect of the place will greatly change for 
vessels. It had lately been neglected the better during the next10 years, Our 
and the gullied surface was sparsely object ,n entering into this detail is to 
covered with brambles, scrub sumach show that fairly extensive improvements 
and broom sedge, with a scattering j way ,° decorative evergreen 
growth of young Red cedars, some of ^ ‘ F ina ^ ,c m .‘ u . L ' at Sllia ^ money 
which were allowed to remain. As the cos * wherc l !" ie a, . ld home labor are not 
area shown scarcely exceeds an acre senous considerations, 
its immediate reclamation would have Dooryard Plantings. — In dooryard 
been an easy matter if sufficient money plantings where there is too little space 
had been available for the purpose, but for groupings or mass effect it is best 
it was thought best to go slow in the not to plant closely. One or more well 
matter. The gradual use of ax and chosen specimens should be placed 
mattock rid us of the most objection- where there are chances for proper de- 
able bushes and tufts. A half day's vclopinent. We all know homes made 
work with team and scraper filled the ever gloomy by double ranks of tall 
worst gullies. The surface was then evergreens, chiefly the leggy samples of 
broken and fined with plow and harrow; Norway spruce formerly sent out by 
a mixture of Red-top and Orchard nurserymen. Who does not feel a de¬ 
grass, followed by White and Alsike sire to grasp an ax and fell some of 
clover, was sown. Right here the worst these over-shadowing trees, letting in 
mistake was made, the effects of which the sunlight where it has long been a 
we will suffer for many years to come, stranger? Careful planting and ju- 
The grasses all caught well, but the dicious thinning will avoid such de- 
Orchard grass proved from the first an pressing effects. Nurseries grow much 
intolerable nuisance. The great tus- better trees than formerly, and gener- 
socks appear likely to endure perpetu- ally sell at lower prices. There is little 
ally, and can only be removed by the need for planting the lanky, sparse- 
mattock. We grub them out by the hun- rooted individual trees that used to be 
dred each season. The surface is fre- so common. It is possible to buy stocky, 
quently mown with the scythe during well-furnished specimens with dense 
Summer, as it is too uneven for other root systems, developed by repeated 
tools, but the vigorous Orchard grass transplantings, that will quickly estab- 
is ever in the lead. We should have lish themselves and make immediate 
used Red-top alone, or combined Ken- good effect. As for varieties it is al- 
tucky Blue grass with it, thus making ways well to use those that succeed best 
a rough lawn from the outset. White in your immediate locality. Norway 
clover has entirely replaced the Alsike, and Oriental spruce, Siberian arborvitae, 
and the effect grows better each year White pine and hemlock appear most 
as we worry out the clumpy Orchard generally acceptable, but there are many 
grass. When a fair sod was established other good ones, including the magnifi- 
we began to consider the necessity of cent spruces of the northwest, w. v. F. 
permanent tree, and shrub planting. Fine 
specimens could be had in the vicinity, 
but only at prohibitory prices. A var¬ 
iety of young conifers, mostly in three 
and four-year sizes, was procured from 
different nurseries. We had much as¬ 
sistance in making selection from R. 
Douglas’ Sons, Waukegan, Ill., who 
kindly furnished some of the scarcer 
western species for trial. These little 
trees, some scarcely a foot high, were 
planted two feet or more apart in nur¬ 
sery rows, and cultivated for three sea¬ 
sons. Five years ago, in May, they were 
transplanted to their present positions, 
growing, in some instances, in the inter¬ 
val to heights of 45 feet with corre¬ 
sponding spread of branches. In plan¬ 
ning the groups the character, aspect 
and possible future size of each indi- 
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HAS 
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