than the Hemlock, with its graceful habit 
and feathery foliage. 
Landscape Arrangement 
T HE conditions which make for most rapid and successful plant- 
growth are those found in a climate of uniform or fairly equable 
temperature and abundant rainfall. The luxuriant plant-growth 
of the tropics is an outcome of these conditions in a region of uniformly 
high temperature. In the North Temperate Zone we have the examples 
of nature’s prodigality on the northwest Pacific Coast of our own country 
and in the British Isles and Japan, all tempered by winds from warm 
ocean currents. In these countries all the plants native to temperate 
regions and some sub-tropical plants flourish with a minimum of care 
and attention. In our own country we are confronted in most places 
with conditions exactly the opposite of those favorable to the natural 
growth of a wide range of plants, either by extremes of heat and cold or 
moisture and drought. 
But, after all, it is only a matter of establishing reasonable artificial 
conditions that enable us to draw from the wealth of plant-life of more 
favored regions and harmoniously combine their richness with our native 
plants of more severe and somber habit. Let us consider that all trees 
and plants thrive best in large groups and masses in much the same manner 
as every other form of life, including man, each individual combining 
with the others to provide protection and assistance of some sort to all 
others in the community, whether it be a forest of trees, a thicket of 
shrubs, or a thriving city of man. With this thought in mind let us logically 
arrange our plantings so that the coarser native trees and shrubs in large 
masses may form the groundwork of our composition, as it were, blending 
harmoniously with the landscape, and most important of all, giving the 
needed protection to the more choice species of Evergreen trees and shrubs 
which will brighten our gardens and the planting about our homes during 
the seasons of the year when native plants serve but as an attractive 
background and foil for the richer and more dignified beauty of the Ever¬ 
greens. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
