OLD VIRGIVEA BOXWOOD 
and its Planting and Care 
Moving Boxwood—Boxwood is dug with a ball of earth, bur- 
lapped and wired, so that soil will not crumble and give way in 
handling ; is wired to oak platforms to enable easier handling and 
to protect the ball in transit. 
When to Plant Boxwood—Boxwood can be planted at any 
time so long as there is no new, tender growth on the plants, 
we prefer early spring or early fall planting. 
How to Plant Boxwood—In planting boxwood the hole 
should be dug one foot wider than the ball of earth, place ball in 
hole and remove wire and burlap, fill hole half full of top soil and 
turn hose on until hole is half full of water, see that the wet muck 
is worked under and around the ball to close all air pockets, then 
fill hole with top soil to within three inches of the top of ball, 
then apply German peat moss three inches and on top of that apply 
bone meal, finely ground, covering peat moss to a depth of two 
inches, then water down, leave ground cupped around plant in 
saucer shape to hold water when applied. Boxwood requires some 
lime and we find by using bone meal the plant gets about the 
required amount of lime. 
Box Leaf Minor—We have had no experience with this pest- 
and advise you to write Virginia Department of Agriculture and 
Immigration, Richmond, Virginia, for bulletin. 
Red Spider—This pest is right troublesome during hot, dry 
weather, the best remedy we have so far found is sulphur, we get 
three-hundred-screen dusting sulphur and apply with a dust gun, 
go all over the plants thoroughly and after dusting go over the 
plants with a broom and knock off all that has settled in spots, for 
this will cause a yellow spot to appear from burning. We use a 
winter spray of miscible oil on boxwood, use one part oil to 
thirty parts of water, Sunoco Oil we find very good. This winter 
spray will, many times, keep spider off during spring and summer 
and if it fails we apply sulphur as suggested above. 
These notes are made from our past fifteen years’ experience 
in handling boxwood, propagating annually several hundred thou- 
sand plants and collecting from old Southern homes in Virginia 
and North Carolina many carloads of boxwood. : 
We have shipped thousands of collected plants of boxwood in 
the past fifteen years and to this date have not had one plant re- 
ported dead, there may have been some loss that was not reported, 
but the loss must have been negligible or we would have had 
complaints. 

BOXWOOD AT ENTRANCE TO OUR MAIN NURSERY 
