June, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Another temptation with privet is not 
to cut it back close to the ground after 
planting. It seems such a shame to cut 
off those long shoots that you paid so much 
for, and the beginner will usually cut them 
off about the height he wants his hedge 
to be, forgetting that the privet will send 
out two shoots from each cut, each one 
of them three or four feet long if you let 
them grow. You have then no recourse 
but to cut them off a few inches above the 
original cut or else let the hedge grow 
higher. How much better to cut them 
short near the ground, letting the two new 
shoots grow up that same year to the height 
you want it and then cutting it still back 
a few.inches below the final height of the 
hedge. In this way you double the thick¬ 
ness of your hedge the first season. 
With this privet order we bought four 
two-foot privet balls to plant at entrances 
of driveway and walk. These are formed 
in the nursery by trimming back a thick 
privet plant until it is one dense spherical 
mass of branches and twigs. It is very 
compact and hardy and looks well through¬ 
out the year. Cost, about $ 1.50 a ball. 
On each side of the walk, half-way be¬ 
tween the entrance and the porch steps, 
we put in two umbrella plants, catalpa 
bungei } costing 75 cents for six-foot speci¬ 
mens. They leaved out well the first year, 
forming perfect little knobs of foliage, 
very formal in effect, and are now perhaps 
two feet in diameter. They must be 
pruned back somewhat every year. 
The logical place for evergreens on our 
place was in the two corners where the 
privet made an ell at each corner extending 
parallel to the sidewalk for perhaps fifteen 
feet. One of these reached as far as the 
drive entrance, twenty feet from the drive 
to the west hedge, so that quite a clump 
of evergreens was needed to fill in the 
corner. For this we chose a feathery, 
silver-green retinospora plumosa, a com¬ 
pact rounded cone some four feet high, 
for the angle of the corner; in front of it 
a blue Roster’s spruce and a Japanese 
retinospora, and along the hedge a dense, 
bushy hemlock, a large biota and a four- 
foot Norway spruce. These, with a few 
little evergreens (two small, white cedars 
and a golden biota) filled the corner with¬ 
out crowding and cost $9.75. 
Carrying the eye back to the rose gar¬ 
den, along the hedge was, first, a plot of 
rosa rugosa, chosen because of its dark, 
glossy-green foliage, almost evergreen 
through all but four months of the year; 
next, a magnolia bush; and then the roses, 
twenty or thirty bushes, American Beau¬ 
ties, Mareschal Niels, Gruss Von Toplitz, 
etc. They bloomed the first year, and each 
June after that gave us enough roses to 
fill the house and leave lots outside to 
gladden the eye. Back of them the de¬ 
ciduous flowering shrubs curved out to 
the drive again, so that the west lawn was 
an oval, some seventy-five feet deep by 
twenty-five wide. Along the drive we put 
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