. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. EXPERIMENTS WITH HEDGES 21. '^'.^^m Arborvitae six years planted and clipped to a very small garden edging raiiiic of soil coiulitioTis niul t-xposin'cs, ;iiiicn,il)l<' to ; .iiin kind of tffal- iiifiit, ;ni(i .suited to many forms of izai'tlfii iisr. A second plaiitint!; of tills species was made in the sprini;" of 1!*2I. wit!) small })lants \ inches high set (i inches a]iart, with a \ iew to testinii the fc- siilts of very close pruning. It was thought that perhaps a small gai-den hor-


. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. EXPERIMENTS WITH HEDGES 21. '^'.^^m Arborvitae six years planted and clipped to a very small garden edging raiiiic of soil coiulitioTis niul t-xposin'cs, ;iiiicn,il)l<' to ; .iiin kind of tffal- iiifiit, ;ni(i .suited to many forms of izai'tlfii iisr. A second plaiitint!; of tills species was made in the sprini;" of 1!*2I. wit!) small })lants \ inches high set (i inches a]iart, with a \ iew to testinii the fc- siilts of very close pruning. It was thought that perhaps a small gai-den hor- der or edging might be grown. The results after six years are faii'ly satisfac- tory. It has been ])ossible to keep these ])lants in reasonably good health and growth and yet ])rune them to a height of 7 inches and a width of (i Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974


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