SECTION III 



PLANTING THE ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS 



In choosing the kinds of plants, the gardener 

 should carefully distinguish two categories, those 

 to compose the structural masses and design of 

 the place, and those which are to be used for mere 

 ornament. The chief merits to be sought in the 

 former are good foliage, pleasing form and va- 

 rious habit, shades of green, and color of winter 

 twigs. The merits of the latter lie chiefly in 

 flowers or colored foliage. 



Each of these categories should be again di- 

 vided. Of plants for the main design, there 

 may be a list of trees for a windbreak, another of 

 trees for shade, another of shrubs for screens or 

 heavy plantings, another for the lighter side plant- 

 ings, and another for incidental masses about the 

 buildings or on the lawn, and perhaps another of 

 vines for porches and arbors and evergreens, and 

 also for hedges. The lists on pages 221 to 240 

 will be suggestive. 



Plants used for mere embellishment or orna- 

 mentation may be ranged into categories for 

 permanent herbaceous borders, for display beds, 

 ribbon edgings, annuals for temporary effects, 

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