426 " IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Good Buildings, but Lacking in the Shade and Adornment of Trees. 



If flowers are grown primarily for cut flowers, line them out in a 

 straight row in the garden where they can be cultivated conveniently. 

 For ornamental beds, place them in a border two and one-half or three 

 feet in width along the front of the shrubbery. Here the shrubbery serves 

 as a background against which the colors stand out much better than 

 they will in the open. Moreover, this location avoids cutting the lawn 

 with beds which make unsightly holes during the winter. 



PLANTING LIST. 



The followng is offered as a selected list of trees and shrubs for the 

 Iowa planter. Only reputable and well established varieties of known 

 hardiness are named. The list is not complete and is meant only to be 

 suggestive. Many of our native trees and shrubs deserve special mention in 

 this connection as they are not only hardy and comparatively free from 

 Insect and fungous pests but also have good decorative qualities, as 

 attested by the fact that they command a ready price in the nurseries 

 in the regions to which they are not native. It is further suggested in 

 making up the list of shrubbery that attention be given to the matter 

 of the succession of bloom periods. The Juneberry blossoms very early 

 in the spring, for example, other varieties in late spring, midsummer, 

 and so on. In this way something attractive can be had in flower through- 

 out the open season. 



SHADE TREES. 



Much of the early tree planting in Iowa was of quick growing and 

 short-lived types such as the box elder and soft maple. Future plantings 

 should be on a more permanent basis and of a better class of trees suoh 

 as the white el^n and oaks. 



White elm, Baswood, 



Hard maple, Ohio buckeys, 



Soft maple. Green ash, 



Black cherry. Red oak, 



