Flowering Broad-leaved Evergreens 
W HEN we stop to consider that “winter” in the North really means 
about five-twelfths of the year, the value of these plants with the 
mystic charm of their broad, lustrous leaves to relieve the bleak¬ 
ness and monotony of our grounds during this season is borne in upon us. 
Coupled with this aspect, we must also remember that the flowering 
varieties of this class of plants, like the Rhododendrons and Azaleas, 
produce the most gorgeous and sumptuous effects in spring and early 
summer months; while others, like the Japanese Holly, Euonymus and 
Evergreen Thorns, are equally valuable in the fall and winter for their 
showy berries. Then, too, these plants form pleasing combinations with 
other early spring-blooming plants which flower before the leaves are 
fully developed, as the Flowering Dogwood, Red-Bud, Magnolias, Azaleas, 
Japanese Witch Hazel, and many others. 
In the planting of the Broad-leaved Evergreens a wide range of effects 
may be produced. The lovely Japanese Evergreen Azalea (Azalea amcena ), 
its delicate spreading branches covered in early spring with deep claret- 
colored blossoms, brightens the shady woods’ walk or is just as welcome 
at the front of high shrubbery or in masses against groups of tall Evergreen 
trees. Combinations of these flowering Evergreens with Evergreens of 
upright habit are always pleasing, for their irregularity of form relieves 
any appearance of stiffness and serves to bind a planting together into 
pleasing unity. 
For many years we have paid especial attention to the growing of this 
class of plants and the stock which we offer represents the most meri¬ 
torious sorts for American conditions; the plants have especially well- 
developed root-systems and the tops are exceptionally wide and spreading 
in proportion to the height. 
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