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Foundation Planting of Evergreens 
EVERGREEN TREES 
Our Evergreens are all carefully grown, and have been given the best of care 
under the supervision of specialists who understand growing Evergreens in such 
a manner as to insure their being transplanted successfully to new homes with 
ordinary care. 
All our Evergreen Trees, except the mailing sizes, are dug with ball of earth 
about the roots and tightly sewed in burlap. Mailing size trees are packed in 
damp moss. Do not compare our select mailing size Evergreens with the inferior 
seedlings that are being offered by a few advertisers at ridiculously low prices, 
and which will die after you get them. Not only are our Evergreens grown right, 
but we take great care in digging and packing, and we deliver them to all parts 
of the United States in good growing condition. Mailing size plants are sent 
postpaid at the prices given; larger sizes have to be sent by express or freight. 
PLANTING SEASON for spring, April 1st to May 20th; for fall, August 15th 
to October 15th, depending on season and locality. Evergreens can not be safely 
carried through the winter in storage like other trees, so can not be shipped until 
the frost is out of the ground in the spring. Some Southern planters have the 
mistaken idea that they should set out Evergreens earlier than the Northern plant¬ 
ing season. Regardless of your climate. Evergreens should, for best results, be 
set out at the time the plants are in the proper transplanting condition. The 
proper transplanting condition depends on the climate where the trees are grown, 
not where they are to be planted. Our hardy. Northern grown Evergreens are the best for planting 
in either the North or South. Send your order early. We will ship at the proper time for planting our 
Northern grown Evergreens in your locality. 
Figures following variety names indicate approximately the height of the tree when approaching 
maturity. Grouping close together will have a tendency to keep them from growing large. The 
tall growing varieties can also be kept smaller by trimming. 
Globe Arbor Vitae (50c Each) 
Golden Arbor Vitae (35c Each) 
ARBOR VITAE 
(Thuya) 
AMERICAN (White Cedar.) 30 feet. Erect, 
broadly pyramidal habit; flat, beautifully carved, 
bright green foliage, dense from ground up; grows 
rapidly and soon forms a most beautiful tree for 
any purpose. Usually seen as a tree 5 to 10 feet 
high and half as wide, but will grow to be a large 
tree. Used extensively as single specimens, for 
foundation planting, screens and windbreaks, and 
heads the list for Evergreen hedge planting. Spec¬ 
imen plants, 3 to 4 feet, $2.00; 2% to 3 feet, 
$1.50; 2 to 2% feet, $1.00, not prepaid. Mailing 
size, 3-year-old, twice-transplanted trees, 35c 
each; 3 for 90c, postpaid. 
GLOBE (Woodward’s). 6 feet. A compact, 
round ball; bright green foliage. The neat globu¬ 
lar outline adapts this Arbor Vitae for formal . .... 
plantings, tub and window box use, as well as in American Arbor Vitae 
the foreground of Evergreen groups. 1% to 2 feet, '35° Eac h) 
$2.00; 15 to 18 inches, 85c, not prepaid. Mailing size, 4-year-old, three times 
transplanted trees, 50c each; 3 for $1.25, postpaid. 
GOLDEN (Douglas). 15 feet. Foliage of a very showy, golden yellow. Used 
extensively in landscape plantings, for there is nothing quite so attractive in a 
group of Evergreens as a flash of rich golden yellow. 2 to 2% feet, $1.75; 1% 
to 2 feet, $1.25, not prepaid. Mailing size, 4-year-old, three times transplanted 
trees, 35c each; 3 for 90c, postpaid. 
BURGESS SEED & PLANT CO., Galesburg, Michigan 
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