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Plate X. Trees are given winter protection both against injury from sun-scald and against injury from severe windand changing temperature conditions. This photograph shows one method of protecting hemlocks against the sun'srays. (See page 105)

Plate XL The list of evergreens adapted to soil and to climatic condi-tions of the middle-west, and valuable for low, refined, mass plantings islimited. The upper photograph shows an effect produced by the use of dwarfyew, Pfitzers and tamarisk-leaved junipers, Mugho pines and Japanese spurgeedging. The lower photograph shows the effectiveness of masses of low, re-fined evergreens against massive architecture. (See page 114)

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