FAST-GROWING TYPES VALUABLE FOR PRODUCING SCREEN EFFECTS

It often becomes necessary to find some fast-growing type oftree or shrub to produce an immediate screen. This is especiallytrue in the development of new landscapes where a foliage effectis desired and the more permanent types of shrubs in the planta-tion require a longer period to produce the desired effect. In suchinstances the more rapid-growing types of shrubs may be planted andremoved after the first one or two years, at which time the morepermanent types have developed far enough so that during the suc-ceeding years they will produce the effect which the designer had inmind when they were first selected. The great danger in using quick-growing types of temporary materials for immediate effects lies in thefact that for the success of such plantations the owner must have the"courage of his convictions" and remove the temporary types ofmaterial when the time comes that they are beginning to crowd and toinjure the more permanent types.