HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
proud of, and that attracts passers-by. It has cost 
you less than a fence of wood, and only a little 
more than one of wire, while you must subtract 
from its cost the price of renewing the other kinds 
of fence if you want to compare the three. You 
can keep the Privet fence in good condition for an 
indefinite number of years for less than $i a year. 
HOW TO GROW PERFECT HEDGES; 
TO PLANT AND TRIM 
Live fences, such as this, can be kept at any size 
you wish. We have seen them less than 6 inches 
high and 10 inches broad. They can be cut into 
any shape desired. The odd shapes you sometimes 
see can be produced as easily with Privet as with 
anything else. This elaborate designing requires 
more pruning than straight hedges, but once every 
month is often enough, unless you wish to play 
with the plants. The photograph shows some of 
the effects that can be secured—arches, clumps, 
globes, straight and curved hedges, round and 
square columns and posts—in short, anything you 
may fancy. 
The length of time required for a hedge to make 
a good fence depends on the size plants you use, 
and on the soil and treatment. With 18-inch 
plants, which are very cheap, the first year you will 
have merely a low line of stems. The second year 
the barrier will take the shape of a fence. By the 
third and fourth years your fence will turn stock. 
By the end of the fifth year you can have it any 
height you want, up to 8 or 9 feet, and as thick as 
you please. 
You can plant Privet either in the spring or 
fall. Spring usually is the more desirable, though 
the best time is when you take the notion. A word 
here about the cost: Many people, in small towns, 
especially, will wait till an agent comes along and 
will give him their order, just because he promises 
to deliver the plants to them at the right time. 
For this inducement they pay five to ten times 
what we will supply the plants for. 
Look at our prices. We will deliver to you more 
hedge for five dollars, or for ten dollars, or for a 
hundred dollars, than you can buy for several 
times these sums from any agent. Our plants are 
the very best that can be grown. We absolutely 
guarantee them in every way. Our methods of 
growing, cultivating and training hedge plants 
makes us absolutely sure of their quality and of 
our safety in guaranteeing them. 
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