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PLANTING 



PLANTING 



Tall-growing vines reaching eaves of the house. 



Actinidia arguta (vigorous; dark glossy foliage, twining). 



Aristolochia macrophylla. Twining; large heavy foliage; should 

 not be used unless dense shade is desired. 



Campsis radicans. This is a heavy vine climbing by root-like 

 holdfasts which are too weak to hold it in storm or wind; must 

 be fastened to its support. Somewhat tender in the N. and 

 usually has more or less dead wood. Better when used as porch 

 or pillar vine where it can be reached and pruned easily. 



Celastrus scandens (twining). 



Parthenocissus. All kinds; tendrils with or without disks. 



Wisteria chinensis. The finest of tall-growing vines; vigorous and 

 hardy at all times. 



Fines for foliage only. All in the following list are 

 deciduous, i. e., drop their leaves in winter. The 

 only evergreen vines which can be used in the 

 North are Evonymus radicans and Hedera helix. 

 Even the foliage of Evonymus radicans will occa- 

 sionally burn in winter although it is hardier than 

 English ivy in this respect. Vinca minor and 

 Pachysandra terminalis are good creeping plants 

 for evergreen ground-cover and Hall's honey- 

 suckle is semi-evergreen, holding good foliage until 

 Christmas. Other flowering vines also good in 

 foliage are Clematis paniculata, Forsythia suspensa, 

 which is a shrub with recurving and trailing stems 

 excellent for running over a bank or hanging down 

 a wall, Rosa Wichuraiana and some of its many 

 hybrids, and Wisteria chinensis. 



Actinidia arguta. 



Akebia quinata. Very graceful vine with delicate five-parted foliage, 



semi-evergreen, remaining until January; twining. 

 Aristolochia macrophylla. 



Celastrus scandens (berries red and orange all winter; twining). 

 Lycium halimif olium. 

 Parthenocissus quinquefolia. Beautiful red autumn color; first vine 



to color in the fall; climbs by tendrils usually without disks 



except in var. Engelmannii. 

 Parthenocissus tricuspidata var. Veitchii (beautiful autumn color; 



climbs by tendrils ending in disks). 

 Sniilax rotundifolia. A vigorous wild vine with thick glossy foliage 



enduring both shade and wet soil. 

 Vitis Coignetiae. From Japan; a vigorous grower with immense 



leathery leaves usually brown Felty beneath; the foliage is 



especially strong and bold and turns a rich red color in fall. 



Vines for flower. Plants marked with an asterisk (*) 

 have attractive foliage as well as bloom. 



Campsis radicans. A heavy vine. 



Clematis Jackmanii. Climbs by twisting leaf-stems. Flowers 

 large and purple. C. Jackmanii var. alba is similar, but the 

 flowers are creamy white. Both of these are good vines for 

 bloom in July and August. . 



*Clematis paniculata. Climbs as does the preceding species. 

 Flowers small and white, covering plant with a mass of bloom 

 in September and October. Foliage remains glossy green, good 

 until December. The best fall-blooming vine. 

 *Forsythia suspensa. Flowers yellow, appearing before the leaves . 

 covering the plant with a mass of bloom in April. Flower- 

 buds often killed by cold in the northern tier of states. 



Lonicera Heckrqttii. Climbs by twining. This is a hybrid which 

 blooms continuously during July, August, and September. 

 The flowers are rose outside and yellow inside, and as open 

 and closed flowers are present at the same time they make a 

 very handsome showing. The only objection to the plant is 

 that it is badly infested with aphids or green-flies. 

 *Lonicera japonica var. Halliana. Bloom profuse and fragrant; 

 flowers white, fading yellow in June and July. 



Rambler roses, in order of bloom, June and July. These must be 

 tied up, but are hardy without protection except possibly in 

 the northern tier of states. In such cold places one must be 

 content with the upright shrubby Rosa rugosa in white, 

 and red varieties, both single and double, beginning in early 

 June; with the white Rosa multiflora, beginning from middle 

 to late June; and with the pink Prairie, or Michigan, rose 

 (Rosa setigera) which does not begin until the second week in 

 July. R. multiflora and R. setigera are both shrubs with an 

 arching habit and have produced many Rambler roses. Of 

 the varieties following, those marked with a dagger (t) are the 

 best: fTausendscbon, middle June, double, delicate pink, 

 larger than Dorothy Perkins; Lady Duncan, single, rich 

 salmon-pink; tExcelsa, late June, or early July, a long-season 

 rose, double, rich crimson, a new variety, blooming at the same 

 season as the old Crimson Rambler, but a better color; Dorothy 

 Perkins, early July, double pink; white Dorothy Perkins, a 

 white variety of the preceding; Alberic Barbier, middle July, 

 semi-double or double creamy white, yellow in center, dark 

 yellow in bud, excellent glossy foliage; Aviator Bleriot is a 

 new variety, very similar to Alberic Barbier; fHi awa t,ha, 

 middle July, a long-season rose, single, bright red with white 

 center and yellow stamens; *t"Mrs. H. M. Walsh, middle July, 

 double, white, same long season and good foliage as Rosa 

 Wichuraiana, the Memorial rose of which it is practically a 



double form; '''tR- Wichuraiana, which is blooming at this 

 time, is the parent of many of the varieties named above, and 

 is itself a very attractive rose. 



*Wisteria chinensis. A strong, twining vine, with long, hanging 

 clusters of white or purple flowers, according to variety, in 

 middle and late May. Leaves alternate, compound, large, 

 loose, and feathery. Beautiful in flower, graceful in habit, satis- 

 factory in foliage, and vigorous and hardy at all times. 



Large trees for wind protection and for background setting 



to the house. 



Deciduous: These deciduous types are dense and compact in habit 

 and make a good screen or background even after the leaves 

 are gone in winter. 



Acer platanoides. 



Acer saccharum. 



^Esculus Hippocastanum. 



Fagus sylvatica. 



Quercus alba. 



Tilia europsea. 



Evergreen: The Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce 

 (Picea excelsa), and Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens) are 

 probably the three most commonly planted evergreen trees. 

 The Scotch pine is the best of the three for neutral mass 

 planting but none is so satisfactory as the hemlock or the 

 pines listed below. The Scotch pine has an irregular spreading 

 habit with bluish green foliage, salmon-colored limbs and trunk 

 and picturesque habit when old. It grows rapidly but is short- 

 lived in America. The Norway spruce and Colorado blue 

 spruce are both conical evergreens and for this reason alone 

 they are always emphatic and conspicuous. Even when 

 planted in mass the individuals are so distinct that it requires 

 years for them to merge into a uniform solid mass. Comparing 

 a solid planting of Norway spruce with a similar planting 

 of hemlock, it is seen that in t'he former every individual 

 spruce is stiff and conical and remains so for years, while 

 the hemlocks with their graceful form and habit have lost 

 their individuality and merged into one indefinite mass. 

 The Norway spruce is also too somber and funereal for cheer- 

 ful home-ground planting. It is also short-lived in America 

 and while hardy and rapid-growing it begins to go back and 

 die at the top after forty or fifty years except in very favorable 

 locations. The Colorado blue spruce is also short-lived in the 

 eastern states and is altogether too conspicuous and emphatic 

 both in form and color for neutral background planting. 



Pinus austriaca. 



Pinus resinosa. 



Pinus Strobus. 



Pseudotsuga taxifolia. This is a large conical tree like Norway 

 spruce and therefore not so good for neutral background plant- 

 ing as either the pines or the hemlock mentioned in this same 

 list. But it is the best of the conical spruce or fir type because 

 more graceful in habit, with soft more flexible foliage which 

 is green or gray-green in color. It is a vigorous grower and 

 though little known it is a very promising evergreen tree. Only 

 the Rocky M9untain form is hardy in the East. 



Tsuga canadensis, the common hemlock. 



Rapid-growing trees for screens. As a class, the rapid- 

 growing trees are weak-wooded and transient. 

 They are cheap and are usually thought of as 

 fillers for temporary or quick effects until more 

 permanent trees can be established. 



Deciduous: 



Acer Negundo. 

 Acer saccharinum. 

 Populus, Carolina poplar. 

 Evergreen: 

 Picea excelsa. 



Pinus sylvestris. These are probably the fastest growing ever- 

 green trees but they are not so long-lived as white pine, nor 

 do they make either as graceful or as effective screen. 



Screens tall and narrow (10 to 15 feet). Space the 

 plants 2-3 feet apart in single row. For taller and 

 more rapid-growing material, use Lombardy 

 poplar (Populus nigra var. italica), or upright 

 sugar maple (Acer saccharum var. monumentale) , 6 

 feet apart in the row. This latter is a new and very 

 desirable form. It is durable and slower-growing 

 like the sugar maple but narrow and upright like 

 the Lombardy poplar. Bolle's poplar (Populus 

 alba var. pyramidalis) is a narrow upright form of 

 the European white poplar and is just as undesir- 

 able as that tree. Moreover, the white woolly 

 coating on the under side of the leaves makes the 

 tree very conspicuous and when pronounced color 

 is thus added to narrow upright form the tree 

 becomes too emphatic for ordinary use. The Lom- 

 bardy poplar with its normal green foliage is 

 much safer to use when either vertical emphasis 

 or a tall narrow screen is needed. 



