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Thyme is gaining in favor as a substitute for grass in lawns. For such use it has several 
distinct advantages as follows: It does not require mowing, just a clipping or rolling once 
or twice a year; it helps greatly in weed control where used, occupying the ground so 
completely that dandelions and other obnoxious weeds are mostly choked out; it forms a 
beautiful edge, creeping in around the shrubbery so that expensive and laborious edging 
is unnecessary; it has a delightful fragrance and attractive mats of bloom in various 
colors, adding beauty and variety to the surroundings; it is easier to maintain on steep 
slopes and terraces than grass; it requires much less watering than the ordinary lawn. 
In short it makes a solid carpet of pleasing growth which will last indefinitely, and with 
good variation according to the variety used. For lawn purposes plants should be set 
from 12 to 18 inches apart each way. In from 1 to 2 years the plantings will be a 
solid carpet. For this use we have made our prices extremely low. The following 
varieties of serphyllum are good. All are hardy. (One square foot of this sod may be 
divided into approximately 50 plants. This puts the cost down to about a cent a plant. 
These should then be planted about 6 inches each way. Planted in this way they will 
make a solid turf in one year). 
, Thymus serphyllum carneus (Pink Thyme) 
I Evergreen carpet with lavender pink flowers. 
I Per square foot.40 cents 
1 Thymus serphyllum coccineus (Crimson Thyme) 
Dense evergreen carpet, completely covered in spring with crimson 
magenta flow’ers, making a solid dazzling mat of royal purple. A 
marvelous plant. The best of the thymes. 
Per square foot. 40 cents 
Thymus serphyllum lanuginosus (Woolly Thyme) 
Fragrant, gray-green mats, lavender pink flowers. Has a frosty, re¬ 
freshing appearance. Growing over rocks it gives the appearance of 
j flowing water. 
Per square foot..,...40 cents 
Tsuga canadensis (Canada Hemlock) 
Native New Brunswick, Wisconsin and south to Alabama. A well 
known conifer of graceful, pleasing habit of growth, and regarded 
by some landscape architects as one of the best of conifers. Perfectly 
hardy, withstanding low temperature without injury to tree or foliage. 
Foliage is heavy and attractive, needles are short. Is naturally broadly 
j pyramidal in form but can be grown to a rounded head, and lends 
itself well to pruning into hedges. 
Each 10 
I 2- 4 inches twice transplanted. $. $. 
Umbellularla californica (Oregon Myrtle) (California Laurel) 
A handsome evergreen tree, 25 to 30 feet in height and reaching 75 
feet. Native of southern Oregon and northern California where it 
reaches its greatest perfection of growth along the streams and valleys 
of the Coast Range. The tree is conical in form and the leaves are 
highly aromatic. Well adapted to hedges. Sargent has described 
the Myrtle as “one of the stateliest and most beautiful inhabitants of 
North American Forests, and no evergreen tree of temperate regions 
surpasses it in the beauty of its dark dense crown of lustrous foliage.’ 
2- 4 inches not transplanted. . . 
4- 6 .’’.’’. 
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