DECORATIVE PLANTING 



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Formal planting. The rules for planting given in this book 

 are for that style of gardening known as the English or natural 

 style. It is patterned closely after nature and is the one most 

 in use in the United States and Great Britain. A more formal 

 method, known as the Italian or geometrical style, once in great 

 vogue and still extensively used in parks and large estates, 

 consists in making all planting on geometrical lines. Here 

 clipped shrubs, plants in vases, sundials, pergolas, angular 

 beds, balustrades, terraces, arbors, fountains, statuary, weeping 

 trees, carpet bedding, and straight lines find an appropriate 



Photograph from Wagner Park Conservatories, Sidney, Ohio 



FIG. 154. A formal garden 

 Note how this planting harmonizes with the style of architecture 



use, and when thus assembled have an attractiveness that is 

 beyond question. Such planting, however, is out of place in 

 the small lawn unless the entire area is treated in the 

 same style. 



Transplanting shrubs and trees. As a rule, shrubs and 

 trees cannot be transplanted with safety when in full leaf. 

 They are usually moved in autumn after the leaves have fallen 

 or in spring before the buds have pushed forth, but if care is 

 taken to keep the plants from drying out, they may be moved 

 in spring until the leaves are nearly full grown. Nurserymen 

 commonly prolong the planting season by digging up their 

 stock in autumn and keeping it in cold storage until wanted. 



