HERE ARE THE BEST HEDGES TC 
Many plants can be 
(below) 12-15 inch Hemlock 
newly planted, and (right) 
how it looks 8 years later. 
made into hedges, 
including the much 
advertised Rosa multi- 
flora, Privets and bar- 
berry (all priced on 
page 7) but Hemlock 
and Yew are far the 
best of all. The XX i 
sizes of hemlock can 
be put in hedge row 
—smaller should be 
bedded two years 
first. 
HEMLOCK HEDGE 
Tsuga Canadensis (Northern Hemlock). 60 ft. Zone Hl. In forests, a 
majestic patriarch, but readily sheared to hedge or modest specimen sizes. 
Humus. Stands shade. The most beautiful native evergreen. 
Hemlock Hedge when properly (25) (100) (1000) 
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smooth dark green surface unlike i 
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Poplar and Arborvitae. In soils ranging from ordinary to 9 : 0 EN “cneddescucenececcnsvccce 00 . 0 . | 
enother year or two the damp, and from full sun to full to 12 Mn. 1b EC Oe Coke 12.00 45.0 350.00 ; 
evergreen hedge will be big shade, hence is easy to grow. 12 to 15 in. XxX (frames) ... 18.00 70.00 650.00 
enough. Then the poplars Set plants 1% feet apart. 15 to 18 in. XX (field) ........ 20. OGar1 30 00g Gude 
ean be cut down. ) 
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EVERGREENS 
1%2 Chamaecyparis plumosa S 6 3 med. 
12 Taxus cuspidata (capitata) S 8 4 med. 
l e ee nana S 2 Z slow 
2 ; " (spreading) P 3 4 med. 
1Y2  “ ~— media Hicksii S 6 2 med. 
ee ”  Kelseyi S 5 3 med. 
1¥2 Thuja occidentalis P 6 2 med. 
1¥2_ Tsuga canadensis S 8 5 fast 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS r/ 
1¥2 Buxus sempervirens S 5 3 slow 
U3. he ”— suffruticosa S ] %2 slow 
l " Koreana S l l slow 
2 Laurocerasus schipkaensis P 3 4 fast 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
1 Berberis thunbergii S 3 3 med. 
*3 4 # minor S 2 2 slow 
l Ligustrum Ibolium S 5 3 fast 
Y i ovalifolium S 6 3 fast 
1% Rhamnus cathartica S 8 5 fast 
1% Euonymus alatus compacta S 5 4 med. 
DECIDUOUS TREES 
Z Populus nigra italica — 25 5 fast 
2 Ulmus pumila S 15 7 fast 
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