SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
If the yard is not so deep from front to back as 
it might be, you can increase the apparent depth 
by planting the hedge a little wider apart in front 
than at the rear, so that the lines seemingly con¬ 
verge. Then trim it very regularly, making it 
broad and low in front, but slowly growing higher 
and narrower toward the back. Such a hedge will 
make the yard look twice as deep as it really is, 
yet it does not make the yard appear narrower 
than normal. With this planting, as with most 
others, you should be careful to keep an open space 
in the center. 
The trees should shade the yard and house, 
should shut off wind and view from other houses, 
but should keep open the vistas to the sky-line. 
If you can do so, plant trees so that this sky-line 
will be broken—here a high tree, there a line of 
lower ones, and so on. The length of time it takes 
for Norway Maples to begin to give shade depends 
on the size you plant. We can supply big ones 
that will have a io-foot trunk and a head almost 
6 feet broad the first season, or little ones that will 
need five or six years to reach this stage. These 
larger trees are most handsome—square-shoul¬ 
dered, straight, with a thick, leafy top that is a 
delight. 
Two church plantings. At Georgetown, Del., (upper) and at Berlin, 
Md. (lower). The first should cost about $10 for fifty yards of 3-foot 
Privet plants and three large Norway Maples. In the lower picture, church 
and rectory have six Maples each and nearly one hundred yards of hedge, 
which together should cost about $15. 
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