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be put. The Japanese maple has intensely 
red leaves, out very early in the spring, 
as early as the golden bells of the for¬ 
ty thia, and this red persists throughout 
the summer, deepening towards fall. Even 
in winter its red twigs never fail to attract 
attention. The American hemlock is easily 
the most beautiful of our Eastern ever¬ 
greens, and a good nursery specimen, 
thick and bushy, with its feathery dark 
green foliage, will be a joy to its owner 
from the moment it is planted out. These 
trees in this group were added from time 
to time, the average cost being $1.25 a 
tree, except the hemlock, which cost $2.50. 
In the east front corner of the privet hedge 
we put in another retinospora plumosa, a 
biota, a whorled retinospora, a Ivoster’s 
blue spruce, an American white pine and 
a pitch pine. The pitch pine is a three- 
needled, sap-green pine, strikingly hand¬ 
some in appearance, growing wild all over 
South Jersey, and easy to transplant if 
taken in the early spring when not over 
three feet high. 
All these evergreens are best planted in 
the early fall. September, October; or 
November at a pinch. If gotten in in the 
spring before May they will also manage 
to get through the summer, but if dug up 
when the season’s growth has started they 
will surely die. They all come with bur¬ 
laps wrapped around the roots, and nur¬ 
serymen usually plant them just as re¬ 
ceived, depending upon the burlap to rot 
away. I always remove it, as I want a 
clean trunk down to earth, one that has no 
rags on it to catch the rake, and I think 
that the roots start out to lay hold on the 
soil quicker when not held in for a con¬ 
siderable period by a layer of burlaps. The 
reason that fall planting of evergreens 
usually succeeds better than spring is, not 
only less danger of loss through too much 
demand for sap due to the spring growth, 
but also because during the winter the 
roots continue to grow slowly and get a 
good hold on the soil before the spring 
rush demands a lot of sap for new growth 
in the crown. 
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