dbe lational lurscDPinan. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXVI. HATBORO, PENNA. MAY, 1918 No. 5 
EVERGREEN LAWN SPECIMENS 
I F tlit'rt' is ono inoi’t' Ilian anotluM' that (lej)i('SS('S 
tlu' IriK' plant lovt'r, il is the inisnse of evtngi’eens 
hy planters and so-ealhal landscape gardeners. 
It is liad enough to see the everpresent groujis of Itetin- 
Tsn{/(( rana(l(‘nsis Sar(/enfi jX'ndula 
shears. 
It is dillieult to reason out why such a practice is so 
general. 
If the plants gn‘w Ix'tter or looktal helti'r for tin* shear- 
isporas, Jnnipei's and Thuyas idanted clostdy along jiorch 
beds and such lik(‘ |)osilions. lint not conttnit with using 
them wh(M-(* tlu'y cannot jiossilily gi'ow and look n\(*II for 
inori' than a lew yt'ars, tlu'y an' usually mutilated and 
shorn of all their heauty hy some ignoramus with the 
ing th(\y get tlu're would Ix' sonx* ('\(*us(‘. hut they do not. 
il wi'akens and stunts llx'in and maki's them look vi'iy 
unint('i-(‘sting and forlorn. 
If lh(' sanx' amount of tinx* wi'ie spent in (‘leaning out 
the dead accumulations of twigs and leaves from the in- 
