








Makes a luxuriant border plant 
Japanese Spurge in foreground. Attractive green color at all seasons 
Japanese Spurge 
(Pachysandra Terminalis) 
A REMARKABLE EVERGREEN PLANT OF MANY USES 
A Broap-LearepD EVERGREEN plant growing 6 to 8 inches high and forming a close 
mat-like growth, formed by planting several plants close together. 
HOW TO USE IT 
When used as an underplanting, it gives finish to your plantings of shrubs, trees and 
flowers, by covering the bare soil. It helps Evergreens to conserve moisture when 
planted beneath them, furnishing more of a natural forest condition. It is good for 
growing on banks and terraces, its fibrous roots and creeping stolons help to hold the 
soil. It is an excellent plant for a low border along drives and walks. It is an ideal plant 
for window boxes both winter and summer. It is just the thing for bare spots under 
trees where grass will not grow. It makes a beautiful and perpetual covering for graves 
in cemetery planting. It thrives in city yards under smoky conditions. Bulbs may be 
planted in it. It is also an interesting plant in a rock garden. It is perfectly hardy under 
all conditions, stands severe freezing without discoloring. It has a bright green, attrac- 
tive foliage. 
HOW TO PLANT 
To be effective, Japanese Spurge must be thickly planted. A secret of making a 
satisfactory growth, where the plant is in the sun, is to plant thick enough so that the 
sunshine does not get at the root system. It will grow in full sun if the plants are set 
close together. It makes its most luxuriant growth in dense or partial shade. 
Set five or six plants in each square foot of ground area or plant four or five inches 
apart as a border. Even closer planting than this will do no harm. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
The Japanese Spurge requires no attention but improves in luxuriant growth with 
age. Plantings many years old are still in perfect condition. A light application of 
finely pulverized compost could be applied every two years with beneficial results. 
It does not have any noticeable flowers, but is favored for its cool, pleasing green 
leaves. It is not a vine and cannot be expected to climb trellises or walls. Use it in 
various ways as shown in pictures on this page. It is put up in bundles of 25 and packed 
in moss for shipment by Parcel Post or Express. 


For shady areas along walks 
