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Title: Landreths' seed catalogue
Identifier: CAT31285599 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: David Landreth & Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (David Landreth & Sons)
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Specimen of a California Privet Hedge. California Privet. (Ligustrum Ovalifolium.) Beautify Your Surroundings! Remove the unsightly fence; enhance the value of your property by planting a California Privet Hedge, the most remarkable, desirable and popular ornamental hedge-plant in existence. It is recognized as the ideal hedge-plant, thriving in all soils, situations and under all condi- tions, lowland or upland, in sun or in shade, under the drip of trees, in poor soil almost as well as in rich. The smoke of factories or railroads does not affect it, consequently it is doubly valuable. Especially adapted to seashore planting, where it luxuriates and grows in all its vigor, the salt air giving the foliage a vivid green coloring. Many handsome hedges of Privet, pruned in various I'orms, may be seen along the coast from Cape May to Newport. The plant is a remarkably vigorous grower, compact and regular in form and a beautiful shade of green, glossy, waxlike foliage, which it retains throughout the season and well into Winter, and in sheltered locations is almost an evergreen, the new leaves putting- forth as the old ones fall. The value of California Privet as a hedge-plant cannot be overestimated ; no plant excels it. It is beyond a doubt the best plant for the purpose ever brought to public notice. The plant is perfectly hardy, easily transplanted and of very easy culture, growing more beautiful as it grows older. A plant admirably adapted for division lines, as it may be kept shorn to any desired height or width ; the more it is pruned the better it appears and the better hedge will be formed. A very pleasing effect is obtained by planting two or more rows side by side and pruning the first row to one foot in height, the second row two feet, and so on, giving the whole a step-like appearance. A liedge of California Privet is decidedly more ornamental and in many ways more desirable than the ordinary fence, which is a constant expense. The hedge requires no repairing, no painting, in fact no expense whatever, and is more impenetrable at two years after planting than the ordinary fence. When once planted it stands for a lifetime, making it a lasting monument to the memory of him who plants. One of its good features is that insects do not attack it, that it never grows dull, but retains its beautiful glossy green foliage throughout the season. Many plants are set out as single specimens and in groups upon the lawn. It blooms in June, producing panicles of small, white, lilac-like flowers. Pruning may be done at any season of the year, and without the slightest injury to the plants. Constant pruning stimulates a strong, compact gro« th, and a perfect, low-branched hedge may be had the second season after planting. We have a very superior stock of strong, healthy, well-rooted plants of our own growing to offer for Spring delivery at the following prices: One Year old, 12 to 18 inches, at $3.50 per 100 ; $30.00 per 1000. One Year old, 18 to 24 inches, at $4.00 per 100 ; $35.00 per 1000. Two Years old, 2 to 3 feet, at $5.00 per 100; $40.00 per 1000. Two Years old, 3 to 4 feet, at $7.50 per 100 ; $50.00 per 1000. . Two years old, 4 to 5 feet, at $15.00 per 100 ; $100 00 per 1000. By Express or Freiglit at expense of purchaser. By JYI^^II To parties living in rural districts, remote from express or freight offices, we will furnish by MAIL, POSTPAID, California Privet, one year old, at 75c. per doz.; $4.b0 per 100. These are strong, well-rooted and thrifty plants, and in a very short time will make an attrac- tive hedge, equal to if not superior to that shown in above illustration. (72)

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