THE COMPLETE GARDEN 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTION 



The Method of Treatment. The lists of plants do not represent 

 a complete and thoroughly exhaustive study of the subject. The 

 general discussions and groupings will provide persons interested in the 

 use of plant materials with essential facts, in a compact form, con- 

 cerning the appropriate use of the more permanent species of trees, 

 shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, and bulbs. 



The study of plants and their specific uses in landscape planting 

 can to some extent be analyzed and tabulated for reference purposes 

 in the same way that plants are grouped for purposes of identification. 

 This study, however, is not based entirely upon scientific facts, and 

 therefore is subject to personal points of view, and many times no 

 hard and fast line can be drawn which will place any one plant in 

 one list in preference to the possibility of placing it in some other list. 



The Arrangement of the Material. At the beginning of each 

 main group, and at the beginning of each sub-heading under the main 

 groups, there is a short discussion of the fundamental principles 

 governing that particular type of classification of plants for landscape 

 uses. This discussion will be of some assistance by way of enabling 

 the reader properly to consult the lists contained under these headings. 



A number of chapters are included in this discussion, devoted to the 

 following subjects: Pruning, Planting Seasons, Planting and Trans- 

 planting, Maintenance, Winter Protection and Mulching, Lawns, 

 Selection and Planting of Bulbs. The author feels that there should 

 be in a book of this kind a concise statement of the fundamental prin- 

 ciples which govern work in this field of Landscape Plantings. These 

 chapters are in no way a complete discussion of these subjects. They 

 are more in the form of instructions and specifications which will serve 



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