HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
I 9 I 4 
good breeding and permanence. The one 
secret of success with it is its first win¬ 
tering. After this, in a climate where it 
will endure at all, it requires no further 
attention. Be sure in planting this, how¬ 
ever. that you select the hardy and endur¬ 
ing buxus sempervirens, and never the un¬ 
happy baby dwarf box, buxus suffruticosa. 
This is the plant that has given boxwood 
generally a bad name as to endurance. 
Thorough preparation for a hedge will 
pay quite as much as thorough preparation 
for anything else about the out-of-doors. 
It is not necessary to give up a year or two 
to cultivation, of course, as it sometimes 
is for a special crop; but deep working of 
the ground to lighten it if it is heavy will 
result in a quicker response in the plants 
and in a consequently finer hedge within 
a given time, than simply setting them into 
the ground without taking the trouble to 
make this specially ready for them. A 
trench should be dug ordinarily somewhat 
deeper than the roots themselves demand; 
then over the bottom of this well rotted 
manure may be spread, and over this in 
turn a sifting of the good top soil taken 
out and piled separately when the ground 
was broken. Onto this set of plants, 
using a tape line stretched along the length 
of the trench, to fix the distances apart. 
Be sure that these distances are accurate 
— that is, within one quarter inch of being 
exact. This is quite possible — for it is the 
middle of the plant by which judgment 
should be made. Two plants ten inches 
apart are not ten inches apart actually, 
but ten inches apart on centers, as a car¬ 
penter would say—that is, it is ten inches 
from the center of one to the center of 
the next — which means that the actual dis¬ 
tance between roots and branches may be 
nil. As a matter of fact, hedge plants 
usually are set so that root bunches touch. 
And sometimes they must even be plessed 
together a little bit to come witbin the 
stipulated distance; but not if you do not 
buy plants larger than the sizes advised. 
As the plants are set along the trench 
at proper distances, a helper should fol¬ 
low and shovel in earth to stay each in 
its place. Two others may follow him, if 
this amount of assistance is available, to 
finish the job; or the trench may be set 
for a distance of twenty-five or fifty feet, 
according to the length of the tape line 
used, and then gone over again and fin¬ 
ished. Work the soil down among the 
roots exactly as it is worked down about 
any shrub or tree, firmly and thoroughly, 
and be very sure that the trench is deep 
enough to receive these without having 
any of them turned upward or snarled 
into a knot, or in any way handled other 
than the roots of specimen shrubs would 
be handled. 
A good watering to settle the earth after 
it is nearly all in place is advisable, and 
then the last of the earth should be thrown 
on as soon as this water seeps in. 
Protect boxwood through its first win¬ 
ter, even when spring planted, by a cover¬ 
ing of burlap, pinned, pinned down like a 
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32 x 3h 
33 x 4 
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$11.70 
15.75 
16.75 
23.55 
24.35 
$12.65 
17.00 
18.10 
25.25 
26.05 
$2.80 
3.50 
3.70 
4.75 
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37 x 5 
38 x 5 'A 
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35.00 
41.95 
54.00 
$35.00 
36.05 
37.10 
44.45 
57.30 
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