HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
dig a trench 2 feet wide and 1 foot deep. Don’t throw the 
dirt out just mix it thoroughly. A horse and harrow or 
cultivator are the best tools. When you have a fine bed of 
soil, plow a trench in the middle, and set the plants in dry 
soil. The roots should be “mudded” as soon as you unpack 
them, and if you do not plant at once, they should be coated 
with mud again just before you plant. Water, if you can, 
after planting.. A good heavy rain will do this for you. Where 
it is not practicable to use a horse, or dig much before plant¬ 
ing, use light, charges of dynamite placed 18 inches deep, to 
loosen the soil; and then, when planting, merely take out a 
shovelful.of ground where you want each plant to go. Always 
mulch 6 inches deep with cut-grass, corncobs, or buckwheat 
hulls right after planting and watering. You can water twice 
a week and fertilize half a dozen times a season with good 
results. But if you do not care to do this, give your hedge 
a little trimming, and let it take care of itself. 
BARBERRY, THUNBERG’S 
This is a most useful plant, and should be used more often 
than it is for hedges, clumps, borders and low thicket-screens. 
Naturally, the plants grow very even and fairly fast. We 
usually see Barberry about 2 feet high, but it will get to be 5 
feet high and 6 feet broad in six or eight years when untrimmed. 
It is very thorny and pretty strong, and will make a real 
fence, even for a pasture. 
It is the thickest, densest shrub that grows. The slender 
branches are always curved and shoot out and down, in every 
direction. In September, October and November the leaves 
turn red, and all winter the bushes hang full of the brightest 
of red berries. Because of this winter brilliance, many people 
prefer Barberry to privet for hedges. It should be not allowed 
to replace privet, but ought to.be planted where it is the most 
suitable, on account of its thickness, its graceful form, and 
red berries and leaves. 
Barberry is absolutely hardy. You need not fear that it 
will winter-kill at all. It will stand trimming, but does not 
need it even for wonderfully fine hedges, unless your space 
is very small. On account of the dense and horizontal¬ 
growing branches, the plants make a thick hedge when as 
tar as 3 feet apart. Half this distance, however, is better. 
BOXWOOD 
This is naturally a large, strong shrub, of very dense 
growth. Old Boxwood bushes look like piles of leaves. When 
you part, the branches you find the inside just as thick as 
the outside, and even a brighter green. You can clip the 
bushes into almost any shape imaginable. The little plants 
can be made into hedges not more than 6 inches high; or of 
course, any larger size. 
SHRUBS 
Too often country people and those in small towns think 
of shrubs as useless ornaments, and do not plant them about 
their homes. But this class of home planting is beautiful in 
its dense leafiness, still more beautiful in its countless flowers 
and the varying sizes of the plants make them suitable for 
planting in every, yard or lawn. We list only a few of the 
most valuable varieties of shrubs, and suggest that you make 
use of them for the following purposes: 
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