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Most everyone plants a fruit 
tree some time —plant yours this 
Spring, to gain a year’s time and the ad¬ 
vantage of this season’s growth, without the 
loss of another year. This is reason number 
one. 
Soil and Season combine in the Spring to make 
transplanting successful—reason number two. The 
root S 3 'Stem of dwarf fruit trees readily overcomes 
transplanting shocks. A good mulching assures com¬ 
plete success. 
Dwarf fruit trees planted this Spring will give you 
fruit sooner than your neighbor who plants a stand¬ 
ard tree. To learn more facts worth knowing about 
our Dwarf Fruit Trees, ask for our 
FREE Manual of Dwarf Fruit Culture 
That’s really what you will find 
our catalogue to be. No other 
nurseryman in America pays 
so much attention and tribute 
to Dwarf Fruit Trees as we 
do, and many pages of our 
catalogue are devoted to 
their management and pos¬ 
sibilities. We record the 
many phases which practical 
experience has taught us will be 
of interest to the Home Gardener. 
Profitable crops for home use 
may be grown in almost the 
smallest backyard. These 
trees begin bearing from 
two to six years quicker 
than standard trees. 
, Illustration shows 3- 
year-old pear tree. 
Dwarf Fruit 
Trees need less 
room and are easi¬ 
er to care for. You 
will find them a de¬ 
lightful, fascinat¬ 
ing and practical 
liobby. 
W l I\^/*K^AY Prepare NOW to gather your own 
• I Ofi 1 • fruit crop in a few years. 
Perhaps you have never grown any Dwarf Fruit Trees and 
would like to try an assortment. 'I'o enable you to do a 
little experimenting at trilling cost, we make the following 
“Dwarf d'rinal Collection” for only $2.00: 
1 Dwarf Wealthy Apple .$0.50 
1 Dwarf Yellow Transparent Apple .50 
1 Dwarf Montmorency Cherry .60 
1 Dwarf Seckel Pear .40 
1 Dwarf Japan Plum . ,60 
1 Dwarf Peach Tree .40 
List Price . 
Special Collection Price F.O.B. Geneva. 
$3.00 
.$ 2.00 
Why not prepare now for the joys of gathering the fruits 
of your own efforts in the near future ? 
THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
C. C. McKAY, Mgr. 
BOX B 
Check for.is enclosed 
Name. 
Address. 
The Gentle Art of Hedging 
{Continued from page 56) 
There are hut two wags to use hydrangeas. One is as the single 
specimen plant, and the other as masses. Often the latter can 
serve as a hedge 
they should be. There is, for exam¬ 
ple, the barberry—splendid hedge 
material, lending itself to close shear¬ 
ing and forming a beautiful wall 
that rivals the forest in the richness 
of its autumn color, and which rivals 
the hawthorn in the beauty of its 
scarlet fruits, which persist all win¬ 
ter. Why are there not more bar¬ 
berry hedges, sheared and prim and 
exact, just as the privet is? 
Then there is the beech—the love¬ 
liest tree in the world, in the opin¬ 
ion of many connoisseurs. A hedge 
of beech is a sight to travel leagues 
to see! Why are there so few to 
plant beech hedges? Why, oh why, 
do we so rarely find one with the 
deep, abiding patience to look ahead, 
and to begin the thing that time will 
finish and make more lovely, rather 
than destroy? Present beauty need 
not be sacrificed in order to do this; 
for it is true that only that which 
is truly beautiful and good will grow 
more beautiful under the mellowing 
processes of time. 
Looking to the Future 
The trouble is that we are, as a 
race, obsessed with the mania for im¬ 
mediate effect; and to obtain a meas¬ 
ure of that we sacrifice more splendid 
effects in the future, as well as that 
superlative beauty which is the pro¬ 
duct solely of time acting upon the 
work of man, when man’s work is 
fine and good. It is a shame! Can’t 
we reform at once? 
In just this matter of hedges, for 
instance: Instead of hurrying to 
get the quickest growing plant, and 
Imrrying that up to grow as fast as 
it can, why not select something for 
its permanent value and future worth 
and wait a bit, content to know that 
what is to come is enduring? It will 
not be long before the effect is ap¬ 
parent ; indeed, there is always an 
“immediate effect,” even though time 
must do a portion of the work. And 
any kind of shrub or hedge plant 
will grow enough by the third year 
from its planting to make you con¬ 
scious of its presence and its purpose 
in the landscape. 
Boxwood is one of the priceless 
things used so seldom now that the 
old hedges and shrubs of it which 
old places boast are regarded with 
almost the wonder that museum 
specimens excite. And this disuse is 
not occasioned by the cost of it, 
though it is expensive when com¬ 
pared with privet; it is nothing so 
much as the reputation it has for 
slowness of growth. 
Yet the few magnificent old 
hedges that still exist in hundred or 
two - hundred - year - old dooryards, 
were generally started with tiny cut¬ 
tings, sometimes with cuttings 
just stuck into the ground to root of 
themselves, tradition declares of 
more than one old place. Few would 
have the audacity to treat it thus to¬ 
day, and expect it to grow; yet not 
long since an English friend did just 
this, remarking to me in passing, 
“You cawn’t kill, y’kriow”—and sure 
enough, he couldn’t. Nearly every 
one of his tiny cuttings “struck,” and 
a cunning little boxwood edging 
now outlines his garden walks, 
an edging which gains every year 
and will some day be a splendid 
hedge. Moreover, with even the tini¬ 
est plants of boxwood, there is at 
once an effect; for great or small, it 
is a plant of so marked an individ¬ 
uality that it counts definitelj^ and 
takes its place in the garden scheme. 
It should be used in a garden, 
however, rather than around the out¬ 
side boundaries of a place; for the 
rough and tumble attitude of the 
public towards things generally, to 
say nothing of the dirt, dust, and gas¬ 
oline vapors of the street, are not in 
the best interests of a plant of such 
severe dignity and high breeding as 
characterize the boxwood. 
Holly and Conifers 
The ilex hedge of England is an¬ 
other close relative of a tree that 
many people do not even know is 
native to our own land, the holly. 
Our native holly, Ite.r opaca, grows 
from Massachusetts to Florida, which 
is guarantee enough of its hardi¬ 
ness surely. It also is of slow 
growth, and there is considerable 
difficulty in handling it for those who 
are unacquainted with its crotchets. 
Even the wild plants may be suc¬ 
cessfully transplanted when small, 
however, if they are stripped of their 
leaves completely at the time of 
transplanting, and cut back rigorous¬ 
ly as well. The time of year usually 
considered most favorable for hand¬ 
ling them is early spring, before 
growth starts. Ilex hedges may be 
sheared into as definite form as pri¬ 
vet, and are a thousand times more 
lovely, and interesting, and enduring. 
Conifers offer material of an en- 
