


A nice lawn, some hedge-work here or there, 
no matter how you 
Your flowers look better, your shrubs 
or your trellis work when you have nice back- 
and your garden looks well, 
arrange it. 
grounds—hedges. 
Hardy 
HEDGES 
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HEDGES for Sheared Form Effect 
* Will make 
Barberry, Thunbergi 2" pretty 
hedge up to 18 to 24 inches in height. Keep- 
ing its neat shining green foliage through- 
out the summer in perfect condition, chang- 
ing to a showy red in fall. Densely 
branched, can be grown in sheared form. or 
without shearing in natural shape. For 
shearing plant 8 inches apart, for natural 
growth 12 inches apart in the row. Larger 
sizes, see page 38. . 12-Inch jhedging size, 
10% £05 95c; 25 for $2.35; 100 for $8.90; pre- 
paid. 
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Amur River Privet 370.02 F Sieages, 
Amur River Privet stands far out in the 
lead. Its extreme hardiness is only one of 
the advantages Amur River Privet offers; 
a clean, healthy, shining green foliage, a 
dense growth that responds wonderfully to 
shearing are also found in this Privet. I 
recommend planting either in a single row 
6 to 8 inches apart, or in a double row for 
a very broad hedge, the rows 8 to 10 inches 
apart, the plants in the rows 8 inches 
apart, and standing alternately. Right aft- 
er planting cut them back to within a few 
inches from the ground to make the hedge 
bush out low. Shear twice during the sum- 
mer to even up the new growth. I have 
well rooted plants, the best for hedges. 
Postpaid: 10 25 100 
12-18 inch nice plants... .$1.75 $3.75 $13.90 
18-24 inch heavy plants.. 2.45 5.50 19.40 
5 D t he rapi th 
Chinese Elm 0°, {° the rapid growth 
; seedlings, 
their response to shearing, a quick hedge 
can be grown from 12 to 18-inch Chinese 
Elm seedlings, see page 26. Particularly 
for hedging on the larger lawns of farm 
properties. Plant 6 or 8 inches apart in 
the row, cut the seedlings back to 6 inches 
from the ground right after planting to en- 
courage a low branch system. Shear the 
new growth once or twice through the 
summer, and cut the hedge back every 
spring, allowing only 4 to 6 inches of 
growth to remain on the hedge from one 
year to the next. 
Russian Mulberry [2rted and 
the beginning like the Privet or Chinese 
Elm, the Russian Mulberry makes a very 
pretty sheared hedge. Note picture on page 
37. The spacing of the plants for a hedge 
of not over 4 ft. height should be about 
8 inches apart in the row. And for a very 
wide hedge two rows can be planted, the 
rows 10 inches apart, the plants in each 
row 10 inches apart, and arranged alter- 
nately. This is a stout, hardy hedge, re- 
sponding well to shearing, by branching 
very freely and becoming dense. Russian 
Mulberry plants are very scarce this year. 
If you send us your order early we can be 
sure to reserve the plants for you. 
Planted and 
Prepaid: 25 100 300 
6-12 inch plants ......... $0.80 ,$2.90 $8.00 
12-18 inch plants ......... 1.10 3.90 9.90 

Planting and Care of Hedges 
garden-spade is usually just right. 
fore in the nursery, and 
water. 
all plants in line. 
planting. 
any height. 
Simplest method of planting is in a trench 
10 to 42 
Set the plants in about 1-inch deeper than grown be- 
t before completely filling the trench with soil, apply. plenty of 
Finish filling when the water is soaked away, which still makes it possible to put 
Shear the tops down to about 4 inches from the ground, right after 
This produces a low, dense growth. Shear the new growth in midsummer to 
Shear again early the following spring to 8 or 10 inches from the ground. 
Summer shearing is to shape up the new growth to even Height and sides. 
inches deep, and the width of a 
Spring shear- 
ing builds the hedge up gradually, and produces the dense growth needed for good ap- 
pearance. 
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Flowering hedges need not be sheared. 
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