1914 . 
THIS RUFt-A-Ii NEW-YORKER 
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The Home Acre. 
Laying Out Small Place. 
I have noticed with interest your land¬ 
scape designs for plots in The It. N.-Y. 
I am interested in having a lot, which I 
have just purchased, laid out with lo¬ 
cation of paths and such shrubbery as 
you think would go well with this lo¬ 
cation. The surrounding country is in 
lots, with no houses nearer than 400 
feet away. I do not want too much put 
on the lot, but just enough to make the 
place look neat and up to date. 
Long Island. H. W. b. 
All necessary grading should be done 
before trees, shrubs, etc., are planted. For 
specimen trees and shrubs (that is 
shrubs located by individual numbers), 
holes should be dug at least six inches 
larger than the diameter extension of 
(he roots, 20 inches in depth, and tilled 
with good surface soil mixed with one- 
fourth its bulk of old well-rotted manure. 
The spaces to be occupied by mass plant¬ 
ings should be prepared by trenching. 
Commencing at one end of the ground to 
be trenched, a space four or five feet 
wide is dug out one spade deep, and the 
surface soil thrown aside. The subsoil 
is then dug up one spade deep and mixed 
with a liberal quantity of rotted stable 
manure; a second section of like width 
of the surface soil is now to be thrown 
on top of the first section of subsoil, and 
the second section of subsoil prepared 
same as the first, and so on until the 
entire space of ground to be prepared is 
gone over. When the digging is finished 
the last section will be without surface 
soil, which is to be filled with the surface 
soil thrown aside when the first section 
was dug. The surface should then be 
leveled and a liberal application of rotted 
manure be given and mixed well with the 
soil. The sod should be carefully edged 
up to these plantings as shown on plan 
by the regular lines enclosing them. 
After planting, all tall trees should be 
staked to prevent them from being moved 
back and forth by the wind. The tying 
should be done with some kind of soft 
material, and in such a manner as to 
prevent the trees being in any way in¬ 
jured by the stake or tying material. 
All deciduous trees and shrubs should 
be pruned when planted. If this is 
neglected some of them will be apt to 
die the first season after planting. This 
pruning consists in cutting back the top 
one-fourth to one-third. 
Where Rhododendrons and Azaleas are 
to be planted, an excavation two feet 
deep should be made, and filled in with 
good top soil mixed with one-third or 
one-half its bulk of fibrous sods chopped 
fine. No manure is to be mixed with 
this, but after planting the surface of the 
soil should be covered an inch or so with 
old cattle manure. Renew this mulching 
about the middle of July every year. 
These plants arc quite sensitive to 
drought; and in dry weather should be 
kept well watered, not merely sprinkled, 
but the ground soaked at least two feet 
deep, once a week during the drought. 
Soak the balls of earth around the roots 
well at time of planting. This is best 
done by standing the plants in a tub 
of water a few minutes with the burlap 
on. Remove burlap from roots before 
planting. Late in the Fall give the plants 
a mulching of forest leaves six or eight 
inches deep, and further protect them 
with board wind-breaks from the cold 
winds of the north, northeast and north¬ 
west. 
For privet hedge, a trench should be 
dug 16 inches wide and as much in 
depth, and filled with good surface soil 
and well-rotted stable manure in the 
proportion of three parts soil to one part 
manure. Immediately after planting the 
privet should be cut evenly to within four 
or five inches of the ground and then be 
allowed to grow the first season without 
further trimming. The second year the 
plants should be cut down evenly to 
within 10 inches of the ground, and be 
allowed to grow as in the first year with¬ 
out further trimming. The third year 
cut down to within 15 inches of the 
ground, when the new growth has 
reached a height of two to three feet, or 
the height the hedge is desired, stretch 
a line along the hedge at the desired 
height and cut off the tops of the plants 
evenly to the line. 
For evergreens use only good surface 
soil. The beds should be dug IS inches 
or more deep. About 10 pounds of pure 
raw bone meal mixed with the soil in 
each bed will prove very beneficial. Use 
plenty of good stable manure on flower 
beds and vegetable garden annually. 
The driveway and walk should be ex¬ 
cavated to a depth of six inches, and 
if crushed limestone or shale is used as 
a top-dressing there should be at least 
three inches of good gravel put in first 
as a foundation. Cover with two inches 
of the kind of top-dressing desired. 
PLANTING LIST. 
Planting No. 1.—3 Norway maple 
for street, 10-12 feet. $6.00 
Planting No. 2 and 3.—16 Thuya 
globosa (Globe arbor vitae) IS 
inches . 16.00 
Planting No. -1 and 4.—S Rhodo¬ 
dendrons Catawbicnsc hybrids, 
IS inches, at $1.50. 12.00 
Planting No. 5, 5. 5. 5.—12 Azalea 
A mama. 12 inches across, at 50c 6.00 
Planting No. 6.—4 Lonicera llal- 
leana, at 25c. 1.00 
Planting No. 7.—1 Golden privet, 
at 50c .*. 2.00 
Planting No. 8.—1 Oriental plane. 
8 feet . 1-25 
Planting No. 9.—1 Wier’s cut¬ 
leaved maple. S, 10 feet.75 
Planting No. 10.—1 Purple-leaved 
maple, 8, 10 feet. 1.50 , 
SHRUBS. 
Planting No. 11.—5 Spinna Van 
llouttei. at 25c . 1.25 j 
Planting No. 12.—4 Syringa I’er- 
sica, at 35c . 1.40 
Planting No. 13.—5 Deutzia Pride 
of Rochester, at 25c. 1.25 
Planting No. 14.—4 Forsythia sus- 
pensa, at 20c.SO 
Planting No. 15.—3 Weigela llor- 
tensis nivea. at 25c.75 
Planting No. 16.—3 Spinea Dou- 
glasii, at 20c . 60 j 
Planting No. 17.—3 Spirant arguta, 
at 25c .75 i 
Planting No. IS.—3 Deutzia gra- _ | 
cilis, at 25c.75 
ROSES, ETC. 
Planting No. 19.—2 Climbing rose, 
Dorothy Perkins .70 
Planting No. 20.—2 Climbing rose, 
Dr. W. Van Fleet.70 
Planting No. 21—2 Climbing Rose, 
Philadelphia Rambler.70 
Planting No. 22.—1 Magnolia 
Soulangeana. 3, 4 feet. 1.50 
Planting No. 23.—3 Bartlett pear, 
5. 6 feet, at 60c. 1.80 
Planting No. 24.—2 Apple. Early 
Harvest, 6, 7 feet, at 60c. 1.20 
Planting No. 25.—2 Apple. Red 
Astraehan 6, 7 feet, at 60c.... 1.00 
700 California privet. 18, 24 inch¬ 
es, at $25.00 per 1,000 . 17.50 
Limited Output —Limitless Quality! 
This is the manufacturing policy of Elmer and Edgar 
Apperson. It means much to the buyer in comfort, confidence 
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Light 4-45 . . 1600—2 Pass. Roadster 
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