The livable house, its garden . to be impatient of waiting for results;and yet a garden should be planned with some eye to permanenceas well, and the poplars that go in because of their rapid growthshould be tempered with timber trees to give dignity to the gardena decade hence, and a beech hedge started whenever possible tooverawe the privet by and by, or one of hawthorn, which willcover its twisted old stems with white blossoms in the spring andred apples in the fall. To return to evergreen hedges, both dwarf arbor vitae and theyews (taxus brevifolia and brevifolia cuspidata) make good lowhe
The livable house, its garden . to be impatient of waiting for results;and yet a garden should be planned with some eye to permanenceas well, and the poplars that go in because of their rapid growthshould be tempered with timber trees to give dignity to the gardena decade hence, and a beech hedge started whenever possible tooverawe the privet by and by, or one of hawthorn, which willcover its twisted old stems with white blossoms in the spring andred apples in the fall. To return to evergreen hedges, both dwarf arbor vitae and theyews (taxus brevifolia and brevifolia cuspidata) make good lowhedges; and hemlock, arbor vitae, and cedar are all more or lessdependable high hedges. Of these arbor vitae turns rusty in thewinter and hemlock sometimes kills back, but at the height ofits glory hemlock probably comes nearest to possessing that dark,solid green appearance of English yew hedges, which is so muchthe envy of us in our drier climate. Ilex—of somewhat doubtful hardihood in Northern winters—? [70] / t G a d n. ^ QJ C3 2 ^c3 a. a,t^ c^ :> ^ ^ o O o (X) D U^ k^ U, ^ <U .fe o % [71] r h e Livable H o u
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