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November, 1912 
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that are really worth growing. 
It is not the flowering shrubs alone that 
deserve the honor of single planting. Jap¬ 
anese maples, with their deeply cut leaves 
of beautiful colors, make exceptionally at¬ 
tractive features of decoration. Like so 
many other Japanese things, these maples 
seem to be the reverse of what we are 
accustomed to, as their leaves come out 
red in the spring. Aureum is a beautiful 
golden yellow. The smoke tree or purple 
fringe ( Rhus cotinus ), has peculiar feath¬ 
ery flowers borne in loose clusters in mid¬ 
summer, which give a strange misty ap¬ 
pearance to the whole tree. The effect 
from a little distance is very unusual and 
pleasing. 
The purple beech ( Fagus syl. purpurea 
Riversii ) is one of the best of all colored 
foliage shrubs or trees. Aside from its 
attractive foliage, the plant habit of the 
beech makes it desirable for planting of 
this sort, as it is just formal enough to 
fit nicely into any landscape plan. 
The Japanese barberry ( Berberis Thun- 
bergii ) is the ideal plant for a low in¬ 
formal hedge. It is healthy, very hardy, 
graceful in habit and attractive in appear¬ 
ance, both summer, fall and winter, with its 
dark green leaves turning to brilliant colors 
in the fall and followed by the scarlet ber¬ 
ries. California privet, where a taller 
hedge or one that can be trimmed into for¬ 
mal shape is desired, is universally popu¬ 
lar. Set one year plants eight inches 
apart; larger ones twelve inches. Prune 
back close the first two years if a solid 
hedge is required. 
Rosa rugosa makes a beautiful informal 
hedge or bank covering outside of walls or 
along roads. It succeeds under very ad¬ 
verse conditions, requiring the least of care 
and being practically insect and disease- 
proof. The beautiful single flowers are 
followed by large red fruits. 
Osage orange makes the most efficient 
hedge for practical purposes, and a very 
cheap one. Put in double rows six to nine 
inches apart. Plants can be had in quan¬ 
tities for a cent apiece. Althea (Rose of 
Sharon) and syringa, or lilac, are both 
very suitable where a tall flowering hedge 
or screen is wanted, and make good back¬ 
grounds for groupings of lower shrubs. 
Rhododendrons are the flowering ever¬ 
green shrubs par excellence. In their nat¬ 
ural habitat they grow usually in partial 
shade and in a soil well filled with the 
humus of rotted leaves. These conditions 
are easily furnished artificially, and a sum¬ 
mer mulch to conserve moisture is also 
advisable. The range of colors in the new 
hybrids is quite marvelous. 
The common mountain laurel ( Kalmia 
latifolia ) is second in value only to the 
above. Give similar conditions. The 
heather ( Calluna ) is very attractive in ap¬ 
pearance, and does well on sandy or stony 
slopes that are not too dry. C. vulgaris is 
the true Scotch heather. Boxwood ( Buxus 
sempervirens ) is an ideal plant for trim¬ 
ming into special or formal shapes or low 
formal borders. 
While more expensive than most of the 
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