. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. 14 MASS. EXPERIMEN'i' STATION 272 not hardy and the European privet {L. vuhjare) is subject to disease. For best results a privet hedge siiould l)e sheared twice or three times each year and every year from its first planting. LUiUittrum lodeiise. Dwarf Privet. A very dwarf form with thickly grow- ing top and small foliage. The plants appear to be lacking in vigor and it has proved unpossible thus far to keep vacancies filled and so impossible to make a shapely hedge. Those plants which do live
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. 14 MASS. EXPERIMEN'i' STATION 272 not hardy and the European privet {L. vuhjare) is subject to disease. For best results a privet hedge siiould l)e sheared twice or three times each year and every year from its first planting. LUiUittrum lodeiise. Dwarf Privet. A very dwarf form with thickly grow- ing top and small foliage. The plants appear to be lacking in vigor and it has proved unpossible thus far to keep vacancies filled and so impossible to make a shapely hedge. Those plants which do live and thrive, however, pre- sent a most attractive apjiearance, shearing well and making an admirable small dense hedge. This is probably worthy of further cautious Amur Privet The best privet for hedge use, and the privets are all good Lilac. Leon Si:\iox. This hedge, set in 1926, was intended to show what might be expected of modern hybrid lilacs when used as hedges. The common lilac has long been used as a garden border plant, i. e. in unpruned hedges- Six years' experience with this hybrid variety, however, shows that the growth is slower, more irregular and more imeertain than tlie common lilac and sug- gests tliat the hybrid lilacs will liardly meet the recpiirements for hedge use. Lonicern Uitar'uui. Tatauian A strong coarse shrub, with stiff upright stems, very hardy against winter cold: the foliage has a tend- ency to grow rusty and thin out early in the fall. As a hedge it is inclined to overgrow and to become stiff and stubby under the necessary pruning This hedge had a height of 6 feet and a width of 4 feet (i inches. Not recom- mended for jreneral use. Marlura poiiiifera, Osage-()r.\N(;e. A hardy tree, natve to the Middle States, and nuich used for farm hedges because of its sturdy growth and repellent thorns. Stands shearing well. The plants in this garden, however, were set as late as the spring of 1930, and though the first year's growth w
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