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lawn areas where planting should be practically completed during the 

 first two seasons. Experience has taught those who have watched this 

 type of plantations develop that a great percentage of loss must be 

 anticipated, for two reasons : In the first place, plants are placed under 

 abnormal conditions of lack of sunlight, and second, the available 

 artificial water supply is apt to be very limited. The process of 

 naturalizing plants and acclimating them to conditions of this kind 

 must naturally be a slow process if the results when the work is com- 

 pleted are to be, a success from a landscape standpoint. 



It is quite essential in naturalizing perennials in a wild garden 

 that conditions similar to those under which the plant was previously 

 growing should be reproduced. A number of wild garden develop- 

 ments have at different times become failures because as trees have 

 died, thus changing the conditions of shade, these trees have not been 

 replaced, and the result is that this changing of shade conditions has 

 caused the killing out of many types of perennials which are especially 

 susceptible to changed conditions of this character. 



LIST OF PLANTS FOR UNDERGROWTH PLANTING IN 



WOODED AREAS 



Most of the plants contained in this list can be collected from the 

 fields and woods. The larger plants are valuable as background for 

 wild garden planting and for undergrowth planting in wooded areas. 

 For information supplementing this refer to Chapter XXIX-C. 



A. Shrubs and Small Trees: 



Abies balsamea 



Balsam Fir 

 Acer saccharum 



Sugar Maple 

 Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 



Bearberry 

 Aronia arbutifolia 



Red Chokeberry 

 Aronia melanocarpa 



Black Chokeberry 

 Benzoin aestivale 



Spice Bush 

 Calycanthus floridus 



Strawberry Shrub 

 Carpinus caroliniana 



American Hornbeam 



Ceanothus americanus 



New Jersey Tea 

 Clethra alnijolia 



Sweet Pepper Bush 

 Cornus alternifolia 



Alternate-leaved Dogwood 

 Cornus florida 



Flowering Dogwood 

 Hamamelis virginiana 



Witch Hazel 

 Hydrangea arborescens 



Wild Hydrangea 

 Ilex verticillata 



Winterberry 

 Leucothoe catesbaei 



Catesby's Andromeda 



