. Trees for Long Island. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Westbury (Nassau County) Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. "yyESTBURY NURSERIES Flowering Shrubs 23 PRIVET, Californian. No plant of recent introduction has come more rapidly and deservedly into public favor. Though mainly used for ornamental hedges, it is of great value for shrubberies. It is of very vigorous, upright growth, thriving finely in seaside as well as other un- favorable situations. Foliage dark, glossy and nearly ever- green ; unaffecte
. Trees for Long Island. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Westbury (Nassau County) Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. "yyESTBURY NURSERIES Flowering Shrubs 23 PRIVET, Californian. No plant of recent introduction has come more rapidly and deservedly into public favor. Though mainly used for ornamental hedges, it is of great value for shrubberies. It is of very vigorous, upright growth, thriving finely in seaside as well as other un- favorable situations. Foliage dark, glossy and nearly ever- green ; unaffected by insects or blight; flowers in July ; white and fragrant, similar to the lilacs. Most of the Privet now on the market is grown by sticking down cuttings close together, which send up from two to five slender branches. The plant is usually chopped out with a spade, which cuts the roots closely. Planted in a hedge, they start to grow from the top, leaving the bottom thin, or nearly bare of leaves. In order to produce a fair hedge with such plants, a double row is often resorted to. Our plants are cut back several times a season^ caus- ing wide branching at the bottom, making them from to 2>i feet in width. They are transplanted at one year, wide apart, highly fertilized, cultivated in long fields, and dug with a tree-digger and eight horses. The result is fine, stocky, broad-based plants, with numerous fibrous roots, economically and well grown. These plants, if set five inches deeper and one foot or more apart, form a hedge solid at the bottom ; far bet- ter than a double row of the ordinary sort. Al- though Privet is easily grown, the numerous thin hedges seen are the result of poor plants, which take two years of cutting back and fertilizing to equal ours in its first year. See illustration, page 7. Californian, Tree-form. The Privet, trained up to a single stem and globular head, makes an excellent plant for tubs and urns in the formal garden. It is equally as good as
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