Valdesian Nurseries, Bostic, North Carolina 
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Hardy Evergreens 
Coniferous evergreens are particularly valuable in all classes of ornamental plantings. 
Every efficient Landscape Gardener knows that no grounds are complete without plantings 
of coniferous as well as deciduous shrubs. 
During the summer months, when every tree and shrub is full of foliage, deciduous stock 
looks all right, but it appears lonesome during six months of the year. 
Your new house may be all that you can ask for, yet no matter how substantial or how 
costly, it is not complete until its surroundings are blended with a sprinkling of coniferous 
evergreens. 
Winter landscapes without evergreens are lacking and incomplete. If the home is to be 
made beautiful it can not be done with shrubs alone. It is to be regretted that the owners 
of pretty homes and villages, in attempting to beautify them permanently, have in so many 
cases planted shrubs and trees alone. They are pretty during the summer time, but at the 
first appearance of frost, the foliage and flowers are gone, and there is but little beauty 
until spring, when they again put on their summer foliage. But this is not the case with 
hardy evergreens. During the cold winter months, when all is so dreary and lonesome, 
lacking and w r anting for beauty and cheer, there is nothing so desirable as the brilliant 
evergreen with its beautiful colors and forms. No other investment possible for one to 
make will bring as much pleasure, comment and beauty as the proper planting of Arbor 
vitaes, Biotas, Hemlock, Junipers, Pines, Betinosporas, Thuyas, Spruces and other like sorts. 
Some homes do not require all of these; it is owing to the size of the building, premises 
and situations. But, in our opinion, no home is complete and affords the owner the satis¬ 
faction and pleasure it should until it has had the proper plantings of coniferous ever¬ 
greens. Of course, the variety and sort should be suited to the size and height of the build¬ 
ings and the surroundings. Some large and tall-growing sorts are not suited to small 
homes and premises while the proper effect cannot be obtained unless the different sorts 
are arranged in artistic manner. 
Many public buildings, schools, towns, factories and other institutions could be won¬ 
derfully changed for the better, if, instead of using Maples, Poplars, Elms, Oaks, Lindens 
and Willows, a few dollars were invested in evergreens. 
It is true that many cotton mill owners of today are leading the community in which 
they live by beginning to use nursery stock to beautify their surroundings, which are without 
A Grouping; of Evergreens 
