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Show HEDGES FOR THE GARDEN They Protect the Yard, Mark Boundaries, Boun-daries, Hide Ugly Spots and Serve Many Useful Purposes. Hedges, if you have place for them, serve at once the uses of utility and beauty. They protect your yard, help ! you out in many ways, such as marking mark-ing boundaries, hiding ugly sights or guarding beds of tender things from blustery winds, and they add to the. appearance of your garden. In older times there is reason to believe that the protective feature of hedges coirv rnended them chiefly to landowners, keeping out cattle, and even men. There are a great many hedges in the country which were, planted and trained with that purpose. Think for a minute of the places where you could use a. hedge. It can mark off the boundary between front yard and back; can mark off the limits of a vegetable garden, and protect pro-tect it, too; It can hide a boundary fence, if you wish, and make it a thing of beauty; it can be used as a background for a border of flowers. Hedges are of slower growth than the average things the gardener plants, but they improve from year to year, and it is an excellent corrective cor-rective to have things of this more leisurely class about the place. California privet is the hedge generally gen-erally chosen for practical use. It has much to endear it to the gardener. It will grow rapidly and can be clipped as much as you please. Few if any pests have a fondness for the California privet, and it holds its. greenness well through the season. The main objection is that it is too-common; too-common; and it is well to remember, too, that one curse of small gardens In this country is that they are too formal. California privet will add to that formality. Other varieties of the privet hedge have been much used, too. There is a hardy Sheridan sort that has many excellent qualities of resistance, and attractive appearance. Box is not to be recommended to the average gardener gar-dener In this region. Evergreen hedges are a good choice as a rule. Hemlock, arbor vitae and Norway spruce are three standard selections. se-lections. Arbor vitae, once universal, has now lost much of its popularity to hemlock. Norway spruce may be made into an attractive hedge. There are other hedgbs of extraordinary extra-ordinary grace and beauty. The Japanese Jap-anese barberry is one. Both leaf and siem of this plant are graceful and delicate, and the conformation of the plant Is pleasing. The red berries stay on through the winter. The rosa rugoaa makes a splendid hedge, but one should be wary of planting it on too small a Epace. It is best to keep ihe proportions in gar-dons gar-dons as "cP sm in architecture. There are raay o jer hedge possibilities possibili-ties lilac, spiraeas, honeysuckis, cedar. fiew York Post. |