Ordinary care to be given 
boxwood 
LD English Boxwood is shallow rooted in almost every case 
except where the soil is extremely dry and sandy and its 
roots have to reach much farther to find water. This shallow 
system of small, fibrous roots enables the plant to flourish even 
under the most adverse conditions—and permits easy transplant¬ 
ing even with large, fully developed plants. 
If possible, give your boxwood plants shallow cultivation 
during the Summer months, so that the loose dirt mulch pre¬ 
vents rapid evaporation of ground moisture. While the plants 
are young, mulch with straw or leaves during the Winter and 
brush heavy falls of snow off your plants, so that the weight on 
the dense foliage will not force your hushes out of shape or split 
their branches. 
In cold, Northern climates, it is best to erect a simple shelter 
of burlap over your boxwood during the Winter months to keep 
snows from damaging it and to give it partial shade from the 
cruel Winter sun. If it is exposed to clear sweeps of wind, cover 
it with a network of twine or erect some form of wind-break in 
front of it. 
Fertilize your boxwood once a year with ground bone, dried 
blood or sheep manure. Old English Boxwood needs very little 
pruning. If some of your plants are scraggly or put out very un¬ 
even growth, trim these ragged edges in the very early Spring 
before the new growth starts. Your plants will not need pruning 
to grow into beautifully symmetrical shapes of heavy bushiness. 
Old English Boxwood requires no more care than any other 
plant or bush in your garden, but it will respond gorgeously to 
the little attentions that you give it—-and wherever it is planted, 
your Canterbury Maryland Boxwood shows its gratitude by 
creating around itself an atmosphere of regal splendor, stateli¬ 
ness and charm such as no other plant but boxwood can build. 
There is no foliage scene which you might create about your 
home or garden that can compare with the matchless beauty of a 
rich green boxwood planting immediately after a light fall of 
snow. It is impossible to describe the subtle, distinctive boxwood 
fragrance that lingers in the atmosphere after a warm Summer 
rain. It is these qualities, impossible to define, but never for¬ 
gotten, which have made genuine Old English Boxwood for 
generations, the most highly prized of all ornamental shrubs. 
Old English Boxwood turns small gardens into spots of 
exquisite, permanent beauty and charm. 
