Dark green foliage acts as a frame for the gorgeous garden 
picture it encloses. 
in the wonderful boxwood gardens of Versailles during the 
French Revolution and were saved from destruction by the crazed 
Revolutionists when Citizen Antoine Richard, previously the 
Queen’s chief gardener, suggested that this marvelous garden be 
kept to grow vegetables for the patriots. 
Your plants may have come from those first specimens which 
are supposed to have been brought back to Western Europe and 
England by the Crusaders returning from the Holy Lands. It 
was the cuttings from these original plants which have supplied 
most of the gardens since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Its 
popularity in England has gradually given this glorious shrub the 
name—“Old English Boxwood. 
Of this much you may be quite certain—your Canterbury 
Maryland Boxwood was propagated from cuttings taken directly 
from one of the oldest and most beautiful Colonial Boxwood 
plantings in America. The original plants were brought over 
from England before the Revolutionary War. Since Old English 
Boxwood does not re-seed itself; since it can be grown only from 
cuttings, it is quite possible that those little plants in the corner 
of your garden wall may trace their origin through history as 
far back as the Crusades—even to the Hanging Gardens of 
Babylon. 
This is the wealth of background that you get when you plant 
Canterbury Maryland Boxwood—a romantic tradition trans¬ 
planted into any garden or added to any home, large or small. 
Romantic, historic boxwood is used around America’s most 
artistic memorials and public buildings. 
