T HIS PICTURE shows plants not even three years old. 
This first and only trimming made and photographed 
in June, 1935, as you see it here, took exactly thirty minutes. 
To accomplish a formal hedge of the ordinary sprawling 
Barberry, recurring destructive trimming of fresh tip foliage, 
exposing ugly hare branches, is required over a period of 
three to four years. And the trouble has only commenced 
for the hedge immediately grows ragged and informal and 
TRUEHEDGE COLUMNBERRY 
in Nursery Rows 
must he sheared about every three weeks at great labor 
and expense. 
Truehedge Ultimately 
Less Expensive 
Columnberry saves expense because practically all the 
trimming required is simple infrequent clipping across the 
top of the hedge at the desired height. 
Hedge Making 
in 
Thirty Minutes 
Hardiness — Vigor 
No plant has such a wide range of use as the beautiful Columnberry. 
It is an especially welcome acquisition in the north, invaluable as ac¬ 
cent plants and as hedges, in place of evergreens and Boxwood, where 
those items will not thrive because of conditions of severe weather, 
unsuitable soil, shade, exposure and other adverse elements. Column¬ 
berry has proven satisfactory under the most adverse conditions and 
has been tested at thirty degrees below zero without any injury what¬ 
soever. 
Truehedge has the further advantage of being much lower in price 
than these other plant aristocrats. It rapidly attains mature size, an 
all important characteristic sadly lacking with other items. 
Read the following letter from Mr. M. G. McCune, Treasury Depart¬ 
ment of the United States Coast Guard, Erie, Pennsylvania: 
TREASURE DEPARTMENT 
United States Coast Guard 
Erie, Penna. 
Gentlemen: 
In spite of the fact that we have some very stiff 
wind here at times, which whips most plants to 
death, and our only soil is that which we have trucked 
in to cover the sand, every plant is growing. 
Truehedge Columnberry makes a very attractive 
and serviceable hedge and has improved our grounds 
immensely. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) M. G. McCune 
The Ready-Made Hedge 
(Nature Sheared) 
Of inestimable value is the fact that Immediate Effect Hedges are 
obtained almost from the day Columnberry is planted, and the 9 inch 
size is just as perfect a spire as the 24 inch size. It rapidly attains 
mature size, an all important characteristic. 
Unsurpassed beauty is had when Truehedge is allowed to develop 
naturally by Mother Nature, untainted and unchanged by human hands. 
The picture below presents one main branch 18 inches long showing 
the fascinating branchlet character of Truehedge. Ten or more branch- 
lets are usually thickly studded along such a main stem, all stiffly 
vertical and densely set with foliage. This is part of the secret 
of Columnberry’s superb density estimated to be triple that of common 
Japanese Barberry. 
Why work and spend and wait three or four years for hedge effect 
with other hedge types? Truehedge is much cheaper in the long run. 
Read the following letter from Mr. Skoglund, director of Parks at 
St. Joseph, Missouri: 
July 13, 1935. 
Introducers of 
Truehedge Columnberry 
Gentlemen: 
In reply to your letter will say that the 
Berberis erecta plants ordered by a local 
hotel were at my recommendation. They 
wanted a hedge to tie in with formal box 
wood in tubs to be used as a decorative 
screen on a terrace. Having seen your new 
hedge plant at the St. Louis Flower Show, 
I was confident it would meet the require¬ 
ments. 
The hotel management is very well 
pleased with the results and to the casual 
visitor, the hedge is the same material as 
the box wood trees. 
Very truly yours, 
W. L. Skoglund 
Superintendent 
