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all right but never get so large. You can put them in wet 
places, along gulleys, around rock-piles, or over banks, with 
excellent effect. They thrive in any soil except limestone, or 
where lime has been applied. The only thing they need is a 
layer of leaf-mulch on the ground when they are planted. 
Straw will do, or any other vegetable matter. If it blows 
away, weight it down with some dirt or stones. You should 
set a plant about every 2 feet, and have two or three rows 
of them. 
Catawba. Bears large white flowers in clusters rather 
late in spring. Every branchlet carries dozens. Leaves are 
extra long and narrow, in clusters at the ends of branches. 
Purple. Like Catawba in every way except in color of 
flowers. 
Ponticum. Bears purple flowers and grows 10 feet high, 
but is not so hardy as the other kinds. This variety requires 
light protection from the severest freezing, but the others 
will live in any situation. 
Mountain Laurel. One of the most ornamental shrubs 
that can be planted. It will grow almost anywhere, in either 
dry or wet soil, just so it has a thick mulch of leaves or straw. 
It is naturally a swampy plant, and is an evergreen, of course. 
The flowers are masses of pink and rose-color. Sometimes 
called Calico Bush. 
Mountain Fetter Bush. A thick little evergreen shrub 
with dark green leaves that have black dots, and showy 
flowers that come the very first thing in the spring. 
HEDGE PLANTS 
The benefits of hedges have been explained sufficiently to 
show that they, like shade trees, will well pay the planter 
in actual cash and in satisfaction. Hedges mean prosperity. 
When you plant hedges, you do more than improve the looks 
of your place—you start something that has a great and 
good influence. 
The kind of hedge you should plant depends on where you 
live, the size you want it to be, how quickly you want it to 
grow, etc. Privet usually is best. Barberry is good when you 
want a hedge that you can step over, while evergreens make 
hedges 6 to 10 feet high and 8 to 12 feet thick. 
CALIFORNIA PRIVET 
This is the universal hedge in the East, and that fact proves 
that it has greater merit under ordinary conditions for this 
purpose than any other plant. For live fences at village, town 
and country homes it is the very best of all materials. On 
public grounds of all kinds, such as at schools, in parks and 
cemeteries, along roads and paths, on factory grounds, and 
on newly subdivided areas near towns, nothing else can be 
used in its place, and in this place it is indispensable. 
In one year the plants will get to be 3 feet high; in two 
years, if not trimmed, 6 to 8 feet; and the third season they 
make a 12-foot screen that you can not see through. The 
making of either this tall screen in such a short time or of a 
thick, low hedge depends entirely upon the trimming. 
Privet thrives in any soil, and particularly well near the 
Atlantic shore; but we know of perfect hedges in the Rocky 
Mountains, 6,000 feet above the sea. The plants are beauti¬ 
ful because of their fragrant white flowers and their berries, 
as well as for their form. 
The leaves are dark and glossy, about 2 inches long, and 
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