LISTING, SELECTING AND ORDERING PLANTS 9 



The cheapest way, though not considered best, is to use small 

 sized plants, planting them at the proper distance even though, there is 

 no immediate good effect. However, most people want a fairly good 

 effect at once. This can be secured by using well-developed plants 

 placed fairly close together or by crowding together smaller plants. 

 There is little difference in the cost of either of these methods. The cost 

 of large plants placed far apart slightly exceeds the cost of the in- 

 creased number of smaller plants that it takes to fill the same space 

 when placed close together. This is especially true in hedges. A 

 good way, not the most or not the least expensive, is to* choose medium- 

 sized plants where that choice can be made giving to each plant as 

 much as possible of the room it will need for development, yet placing 

 the shrubs close enough to secure a fairly good immediate effect. 



SIZES TO SELECT IN ORDERING TREES 



The best rule to follow in most cases is to secure a medium-sized 

 tree that can be easily handled. Where the expense is not too great 

 and where it is possible to secure experienced help, who have the 

 proper equipment to handle the larger sized trees, a great many years 

 of patient waiting will be avoided in their selection. 



SIZES TO SELECT IN ORDERING PERENNIALS 



Herbaceous perennials are offered by commerical growers as 

 clumps, pot grown plants, or two-year-field-grown plants. Clumps are 

 old plants with a crown and mass of roots. They are used to obtain 

 the quickest effects. Unless divided, clumps are apt to die back from 

 the center. Due to this and to the short season in which they must 

 be handled they have become less popular than the other forms. The 

 pot-grown plants have the advantage of having a longer period in 

 which they can be handled. The plants are grown in pots land are 

 easily set out. Pot grown material has good resistance and is a staple 

 form. Two-year-field-grown plants are similar in size and age, to 

 the pot-grown class, but they have been grown in the field and are not 

 handled with dirt about the roots. Very satisfactory results can be 

 obtained with their use and many growers offer them entirely. 



SIZES TO SELECT IN ORDERING EVERGREENS 



Evergreens for mass planting should be of the heights called for 

 according to their position as studied out and specified on the plan. 

 Quotations are often given at a specified rate per foot; thus it is easy 

 for one to figure out the size that can be afforded and ordered. For 

 safety in handling evergreens it is necessary in most cases that they be 

 balled and burlaped, and crated or boxed for shipment. This should 

 be specified in the order. 



