SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
rails, also work, and the total cost will be close to 
$30. This is on the basis of the wood pickets lasting 
the entire fifteen years, but replacing the posts 
once. Such a fence must be painted three or four 
times in fifteen years, and this will cost at least 
$10. The total for the wood fence is $40. 
Now the Privet fence will be taller, handsomer 
and more useful than either of the other two kinds. 
Also at the end of the fifteen years, it will be just 
entering on its period of greatest beauty, when 
both the others must be completely renewed. 
Setting the plants 6 inches apart, we need three 
hundred for 50 yards. If a very large size is se¬ 
lected, a size large enough to make a pretty good 
hedge the first year, say 6-foot plants, they will 
cost $18. Planting them should cost about $2, 
and fertilizer during fifteen years about $2. Trim¬ 
ming twice a year is enough to keep a Privet fence 
in good condition, and the laziest man in your 
vicinity can trim 50 yards of hedge in two hours. 
If he is worth 20 cents an hour, which he isn’t if 
he is so lazy, you would have to pay him 80 cents 
a year for trimming, or $12 for the fifteen years. 
The total of all these items is $36. 
You now have a splendid hedge, 6 feet or more 
high, 3 feet thick, and so dense you cannot see 
through it. It is a thing of beauty that you are 
Good planting for a quiet country-town home. Should have hedge, 
not fence. The six Norway Maples, 9 feet high, and the two Evergreens, 
4 feet high, can be bought for $6.10. Where space is very scarce, and there 
is much dust, it is sometimes best to use fence in place of hedge. 
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