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Evergreen Hedges 
HEDGES 
Attractive Backgrounds and Boundaries for Your Property 
Why hedges? Because edges! 
The edge of a lawn, where it meets the 
sidewalk is always a no-man’s land. In 
winter when the snowplow swerves a bit 
from where the sidewalk seems to be, the 
lawn edge gets a fearsome trampling. In 
spring, when puddles appear at intervals 
on the sidewalk, the lawn edge gets 
another "beating-up”. All summer, 
bicycles and puppies dash in and out. 
Really, you have to plant something 
there, or build a wall. 
There are several ways to plant the 
lawn edges. But the simplest way, — the 
oldest fashion and now the newest, is to 
plant a hedge. 
For a narrow lawn it is the only practical 
thing, and for all lawns bordering on 
busy streets it is the most practical thing. 
A hedge can be high or low, as you may 
want a view or no view. It can be thick 
or narrow according to what you plant. 
It may be evergreen, deciduous or flower¬ 
ing, as you like it. 
So, you see, a hedge is a very adaptable 
and obliging protector. The greatest 
country properties and the tiniest modern 
house, look well behind hedges. 
A hedge is always a protection, a neat 
finish, a real addition to the value and 
appearance of your home. And if you 
take thought with regard to the material 
and the treatment of your hedge, it can 
be made a wholly harmonious part of the 
decorative scheme; perhaps the most 
important part. 
In the pictures and paragraphs, the 
offers on these few hedge pages, we try 
to show the different types of hedge you 
will want to know about; where the 
types fit best; and how to make them. 
Evergreen hedges are the most elegant 
and lasting of all, and are preferred for 
most extensive boundaries. They are also 
the choice of most garden lovers for their 
flower, fruit or vegetable plots because 
Offer A-10 $12.00 
Arborvitae Hedge 
Ten American Arborvitae 6 feet tall. 
Little Tree Farms grows these Arborvitae especially 
for fine hedges. This offer makes a splendid hedge 
approximately 30 feet long. 
Order by name and number, with remittance. 
they lose no efficacy in winter. 
Evergreen hedges supply great range 
of height, also; they can be kept per¬ 
manently in the medium range, or allowed 
to become very high, massive walls. 
The Spruce hedge below, right, is over 
30 years old yet it is not over 5 feet high 
in any spot. Arborvitae garden hedges 
several generations old are seen no higher 
than a man’s head. Yet if left to grow as 
they will, these same hedges make great 
walls against the wind. 
The Arborvitae hedge is very much the 
mode now for edges next the street, and 
even more so as a hedge between properties 
or between parts of the same property. 
Not that Arborvitae hedges ever went 
out of fashion. But they were found 
chiefly on the highly landscaped estates 
and surrounding elaborate gardens. Just 
as taste in dress and houses has become 
a more general possession among us, so 
has taste in gardens and grounds. Con¬ 
sequently the best "furniture" for gardens 
and grounds is demanded and supplied. 
Arborvitae hedges are of the best. Use 
them around gardens, between properties 
or edging the lawn. 
Magnificent 'living walls of Spruce or Douglas Fir like the one shown above are far Arborvitae may be sheared for a low formal hedge like this or allowed to 
less costly to build and maintain than equally protective walls of stone or brick. grow less formally as in the garden hedge shown at the top of the page. 
Evergreens are priced f.o.b. our nursery. Packing for rail shipments extra at cost. 
