. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . able hedge. Crataegus crus-galli and oxyacantha are also will require close pruning when small to induce branches atthe base of the plants. Crataegus crus-galli, on account of its dangerousneedle-hlie thorns, should not be set out where there is a of Hemlock, Arbor Vitae and Norway Spruce are substantialwhen the taller ones are wanted. The Hemlock is the finest, sinJeeach plant m
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . able hedge. Crataegus crus-galli and oxyacantha are also will require close pruning when small to induce branches atthe base of the plants. Crataegus crus-galli, on account of its dangerousneedle-hlie thorns, should not be set out where there is a of Hemlock, Arbor Vitae and Norway Spruce are substantialwhen the taller ones are wanted. The Hemlock is the finest, sinJeeach plant merges into the next admirably. A common blunder with hedges is to locate them too near walks sothat they are injured by the constant brushing against them by thepassersby. The soil should be prepared deeply and well as for ordinary shrubplanting. The practice is not advised of placing two rows of shrubs fora hedge. The hedge can be kept cleaner of weeds and its growth is moresymmetrical by planting only one row. It is advisable in setting ahedge to set the plants so that they touch at planting time. This meansthat the smaller plants, as Barberry, will be planted six to eight Privet put to good use and charming city street arrangement 42 GARDEN GUIDE and Privets ten to twelve inches apart. The soil must be thoroughlyfirmed around the plants at setting. For pruning hedges, see chapter on Pruning. Board or picket fences are employed between the smaller subur-ban yards. These can be covered with Rambler Roses, Honeysuckleill variety, or other climbers. By proper pruning and thinning thesewill not get too heavy or cumbersome, and can readily be held backif the fence requires to be painted. Iron fences and galvanized oralumina plated fences are also used, the latter being strong and dur-able. Or again, a soil bank can be thrown up and be planted withtrees and shrubs. The consideration of brick and stone walls hardlycomes within the scope of this book.
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