. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. the o^vne^ so choose. The soil at this pointis light, dry and rich which may accountfor the spreading proclivities of the plantwhich usually does little more than holdits own if it does as much as that. Not much attention is paid to the use oftender bedding plants on these grounds, alack which the florists of all men werequick to notice. Still the very absence ofthese in a garden that abounds in so manyfine effects in lawn, hardy flowers, shrubsand trees, should teach us that beautyin
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. the o^vne^ so choose. The soil at this pointis light, dry and rich which may accountfor the spreading proclivities of the plantwhich usually does little more than holdits own if it does as much as that. Not much attention is paid to the use oftender bedding plants on these grounds, alack which the florists of all men werequick to notice. Still the very absence ofthese in a garden that abounds in so manyfine effects in lawn, hardy flowers, shrubsand trees, should teach us that beautyin gardening is attainable in a verylarge measure by the use of hardy alone. Fig. I. Arrangement of RododendrottJi ahjng Forest dron the Hayes Estate near Boston. :»*.% -#^; ,<^? .?^w»i*f;. Fig. 4. Hedge of Arbor Vitw. often met; they had been planted three orfour in a mass at a few feet from centerto center. With growth the brancheshave mingled, and now, perhaps twentyyears from planting, each mass has an ap-pearance not unlike a single large spreadingshrub about eight or ten feet high and adozen or more feet across. Masses ofGolden Bell (Fiimythia viridLsHitiui), SpiceBush (,((il]ic(i)) were particularly Weeping Spruce, an 18-foot high specimenbeing illustrated on page 2, Dwarf whiteSpruce, the blue form of White Spruce,various Dwarf and other Pines, Goldenand other Retinosporas. A pleasing ArborVitie hedge about eight feet high, of circu-lar form and which provides a shelteredspace within for Chrysanthemums andother choice plants, as illustrated in fig. 4,attracted the attention of the visitors. The Japanese Maples on the grounds withthe place and treatment here given, do notmak
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