SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
Common Juniper. A dwarf tree with a very short trunk 
and branches that grow straight out and then turn up. 
Specimens get to be 5 or 6 feet broad and only 2 or 3 feet high. 
Douglas Golden Juniper. Like a small, ordinary Red 
or Blue Cedar, except with the current year’s growth of 
bright yellow. 
EVERGREEN HEDGE PLANTS 
In certain places where a wide and high hedge can be used, 
the most beautiful of all are made with Hemlock, American 
Arborvitse or Norway Spruce. See the descriptions of these 
trees on pages 44 and 46. The Laurels and Rhododendrons also 
make hedges that are splendidly fitted for certain situations. 
RHODODENDRON, LAUREL, ETC. 
The Broad-Leaved Evergreens 
Rightly considered, Rhododendrons are shrubs, but as 
they are selected more often for their evergreen quality than 
for their size, we consider them as evergreens. They are 
very useful and are simply wonderful in their flowers as well 
as in their thick cover of leaves. The ordinary Mountain 
Laurel of the Alleghanies is a member of the Rhododendron 
family. There are a dozen or more different kinds. The 
common deciduous Azalea is a Rhododendron, a fact which 
often is overlooked because the Azalea sheds its leaves. 
Rhododendrons naturally are at home under trees in half- 
shaded places or where the sun never reaches them at all. 
They bloom best where they get a little sun, but they thrive 
even in the deepest shade. Out in the full sun they grow 
This clump of Evergreens and Maples, in a vacant corner, where a 
pasture yard joins the barnyard, protects the barn and screens the house. 
One hundred Pines, Spruces, Arborvitass and Firs, and a dozen Maples 
in this particular planting cost, in sizes best suited, about $32. Those 
seen would cost no more than $5. 
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