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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERYSTOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXVII. _ HATBORO, PENNA. SEPTEMBER. 1919 _ No. 9 
A Well Planted Entrance 
Ilex crenata and other evergreens used at the entrance of an attractive home. 
O UR illustration shows an entrance that has been 
exceptionally well treated from a landscape 
point of view. A well traveled road leads in 
front of the residence. The place is also in a fairly 
thickly populated section. The picture gives no sugges¬ 
tion of this, and makes it appear to be away out in the 
country, yet there are houses surrounding it on eveiy 
side. 
The plantings as seen on the outside of the piers con¬ 
sist mainly of Ilex crenata, which is perhaps the most 
satisfactory and dependable of all the evergreen shrubs. 
It is more dependable than the Rhododendrons, Azaleas, 
etc., as it seems to be satisfied with almost any kind of 
soil, and is rarely affected by diseases or pests, even 
when neglected or growing in uncongenial positions. 
Too much cannot be said in its favor, for such positions 
as those indicated in the picture. 
One can readily imagine what would have happened 
to these particular grounds if an amateur landscajie gar¬ 
dener had attempted to lay them out. The tendency 
would have been to clear off the native growth, square 
everything up and plant things in pairs, or use that 
tiresome formality which is so evident in all suburban 
sections of large cities. 
Here the landscape artist preserved the natural 
