HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
A generous planting of Rhododendrons. Do not neglect the Broad-leaved Evergreens in selecting your varieties for planting around the 
base of the house 
find. There is hardly any other class of trees and shrubs that 
served so many decorative and useful purposes — for hedges, wind¬ 
breaks, winter effects, shading, edging, screening, etc. It would 
be almost impossible to construct a formal garden without ever¬ 
greens, and we could not well get along without the beautiful, 
flowered broad-leaved varieties. Elsewhere in this number will be 
found an article especially devoted to a consideration of the place 
of Evergreens in landscape design. 
Evergreens must be selected with reference to the position 
they are to occupy, the purpose they are to serve, and their rela¬ 
tion to the place where they are to grow. One would not plant 
a Norway Spruce in a yard space of twelve feet square, nor 
expect a single specimen of the common 
Juniper to be discovered alone in the mid¬ 
dle of an acre. As the catalogue of one 
nurseyman enumerates over two hundred 
varieties of Conifers alone, the suggestions 
that follow will probably be welcomed by 
those who wish to select certain Ever¬ 
greens for certain purposes, but are not 
sure just what sorts to order. With the 
Holly it is always necessary to plant several 
specimens in a group to ensure cross fer¬ 
tilization and hence berries, as the flowers 
of a single tree are infertile in themselves. 
Unlike deciduous trees and shrubs 
Evergreens show their character at once, 
and it is a comparatively easy matter, when 
they come from the nurseryman, to group 
them and to have an excellent idea of just 
how they are to look, which, of course, one 
cannot do with the leafless stemmed de¬ 
ciduous plants. Evergreens love company, 
as in this way they form mutual protection against dry and chill¬ 
ing winds, from which winds all Evergreens are apt to suffer. 
Evergreens may be grouped with deciduous trees and shrubs to be 
planted at a later time. 
1 f you are buying very large specimens, that is, large tree- 
sizes, it will be well to visit a nursery to consult about the matter 
and to examine the growing tree to see if it is all you would 
have it to be. Any small trees and shrubs can be bought by cor¬ 
respondence from any reliable dealer in Evergreens, and there 
are several who particularly specialize in trees and shrubs of 
this sort. Always demand plants of symmetrical form and those 
that have good roots. These should be dug with a generous ball 
of earth chiming to them and plenty of 
feeding roots left around the main roots. 
Evergreens up to twenty or twenty-five 
feet may be shipped by rail with compara¬ 
tive safety. All Evergreens in the process 
of moving should have the root-ball 
wrapped in bagging, so the air will not 
come in contact with the moist roots and 
dry them before they can be planted. 
Evergreens are particularly sensitive to 
this. Don't permit the Evergreens you 
have bought to lie around for a minute in 
the hot sun unplanted. 
You will find that Evergreens take 
spherical, cylindrical or pyramidal form, 
many of them, as they reach greater age, 
branching out irregularly. 
Among the spherically formed are 
many of the Conifers in the early stages 
of growth, and occasionally older Ever¬ 
greens assume an approximation of this 
A magnificent wind-break of White Pines 
along the edge of an entrance drive 
