Plants that Thrive Under Neglect 
HERE are gardens that take care of themselves. Almost every one of the 
beautiful things that live in our gardens grows wild somewhere. Many, of 
course, are improved by care of some sort. Yet, there remains a large number 
of thoroughly important and delightful plants which cannot honestly be said to 
receive any improvement whatever from cultivation. 


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CONIFEROUS 
EVERGREENS 
Nature grows evergreens in any ordinary 
garden. The only thing you must do is to 
keep them shapely and bushy. Most ever- 
greens (Chamaecyparis, Juniperus, Taxus, 
Thuja, Tsuga) are shaped when young by 
cutting back long side branches to an 
even length and tying the stem to a stake 
if the plant is too weak to support itself. 
This induces a stiffer main stem and more 
short side branches — the tree grows 
straight and bushy. Such cutting is done 
in May and it is almost impossible to hurt 
a young evergreen by too much pruning. 
Abies, Picea and Pinus are entirely dif- 
ferent. Shaping consists of merely remov- 
ing the top bud with knife or fingers in 
May if bushier trees are desired, or cutting 
all the new “candle” growth in half just 
as it is hardening in June, if dwarfing is 
desired. Disbudding is also done to any 
extra-long side shoots to keep the tree 
balanced. 
Repairing Broken Leader 


Training Evergreens 
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Evergreens Grow Fast 
Sometimes large evergreens can be 
planted and at once take hold and grow 
at good speed, but frequently they are 
stunted by the shock of transplanting. One 
customer writes: “My neighbor paid $30. 
apiece for 12-foot specimen Red Pine; I 
bought 18-inch XX (no earth ball) the same 
year. Today (12 years later) my trees are 
larger than his!" Such experiences are not 
uncommon, though usually not so extreme. 
Here are some average rates of growth 
(inches per year):* 
Abies concolor 9 Pinus cembra 6 
—douglasi 16 —mughus 7 
Juniper Pfitzer 15 —nigra ll 
—Sargent 10 —sylvestris 15 
—virginiana 11 Taxus cuspid 1] 
Picea glauca 12 —Hicksi 12 
——conica z —Kelsey 8 
—excelsa 13 Thuja occid. 1] 
—pungens 1] Tsuga canad. 12 
* Small transplants grow at 1/2 this rate, the first 
two years. 
