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value for covering banks and other bare areas where it is desired to have 

 another covering than grass. 



Ferns (in moist shade) Lonicera sempervirens 



Ferns Coral Honeysuckle 



Gelsemium sempervirens Zebrina pendula 



Carolina Jasmine Wandering Jew 



Hedera helix Zoysia matrella 



English Ivy Manilla Grass 



Lonicera japonica halliana Zoysia tenuijolia 



Japanese Honeysuckle Mascarene Grass 



H. Shrubs for Shady Conditions. The following is a group of 

 shrubs most of which are evergreen in their foliage characteristics, and 

 all of which are adapted for plantations in partial shade, either under 

 large trees or on the north side of buildings where full sunlight is 

 not available. 



Azalea indica Ligustrum amurense 



Indian Azalea Amoor River Privet 



Camellia japonica Ligustrum nepalense variegata 



Japonica Variegated Nepaul Privet 



Hamelia erecta Osmanthus fragrans 



Scarlet Bush Sweet Olive 



Hamelia sphaerocarpa Severinia huxifolia 



Scarlet Bush Severino's Citrus 



I. Herbaceous Plants. This group includes plants many of 

 which are semi-woody in character and which fundamentally are 

 known as herbaceous stock. There is still a great opportunity to 

 introduce a number of the northern types of herbaceous stock into the 

 garden plantations of Florida. This list is compiled as a partial Hst 

 of those which to date have been found to be of real interest and value. 

 Many other plants may be added to this list in safety, but because of 

 the lack of record of experiments conducted with their growth in this 

 climate they have not been included. 



The climate of middle and southern Florida has been aptly described 

 by one horticulturist as that of a great out-of-door greenhouse. The 

 climate is such that many of the flowering annuals so familiar to the 

 gardens of the north prove failures when grown in the Florida garden. 

 Such plants as the annual larkspur, snapdragon, China aster, sweet 

 William, and baby's breath, producing such an abundance of cut flowers 

 when grown in the north, are grown with little success in Florida. 



