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art available in USDA Circular “The Black Widow Spider.” Ask your county "agent about it or write the VPI Agricultural Extension Service, Blacksburg.
OCTOBER IS GOOD TIME TO TRANSPLANT ORNAMENTALS
October is an ideal month to plant or transplant evergreens, junipers, hollies, and yews.
A. S. Beecher, associate horticulturist at V.P.I., says to get your order in immediaitely and set out ; the plants as soon as you receive them. f There are two types of evergreens—broadleaf and needle. The first is characterized by the rhododenron and mountain laurel, latter, by the native hemlock, juniper and arborvitae.
No simple answer can be to the question as to which evergreens to use. This will depend largely on cost and personal wishes.
The broadleaf evergreens are more informal in the way they grow and in the character of their foliage. The needle-type evergreens are more formal in general outline and foliage characteristics. Broadleaf evergreens -such as boxwood and Japanese hollies may be pruned to, formal shapes. Fortunately, this does not destroy their foliage characteristics.
There are .tall, medium and low plants in each group of evergreens. So there is little excuse for the common practice of using spruce, fir, and similar tree-like plants for foundation plantings. They look innocent enough when small, but remember that they grow up.
If you art planning to plant this
fall, get your order in now. The nurseries will fill orders in rotation. ‘
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