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pot-grown seedlings of these to set out in the garden in the spring. A year 

 later these yearling trees may be used for grafting and budding. Grow 

 also ash, elm, hickory, maple, mountain ash, oak, and walnut from seed for 

 shade trees. 



Plotting the home grounds. On the opposite page draw to scale the plan 

 of a lot 75 by 200 with a house 15 by 40, garage or barn 10 by 16, and a 

 vegetable garden. The object in planting is threefold: (i) to make the 

 lot produce as much as possible in the way of garden stuff, fruit, and flowers, 

 (2) to make it as beautiful as possible, and (3) to make the place attractive 

 to the birds so that they may nest on the grounds. 



General directions. Indicate location of shrubs and trees by a circled 

 number, the number inside referring to the name of the variety given in 

 the key to the scheme. These rough circles should be made approxi- 

 mately to scale and should show the size of the tree or shrub when grown. 



The following principles should be observed: Group plants around 

 margins so as to leave wide spaces for the lawn. In planting shrubbery 

 use shrubs blossoming at different times of the year so that something 

 will be in bloom all the time. Consider, also, the fall fruits, so that beds 

 of shrubbery will have color in them even after the leaves have fallen. 

 Keep in mind the height to which various shrubs grow. Low shrubs should 

 be used, of course, for borders, higher shrubs for background. In planting 

 against the house consider the color of the blossoms in connection with the 

 color of the house. Thus a crimson rambler growing on a red brick house 

 is, to say the least, inharmonious. Planting effects should be considered 

 primarily from the inside of the house. The views out of the windows 

 are the first consideration, the effect from the street the second. Flowers 

 growing close to a window must harmonize too with the tinting of the 

 interior walls. In planting shrubs and flowering plants either they should 

 be arranged to produce mass effects, i.e., quantities of the same sort of 

 blossom all together at one time, or they should be set so as to have con- 

 trasts of foliage and variety in the time of bloom, thus securing a clump 

 that will be bright with flowers or fruits at all seasons. 



Native shrubs and trees may be used to plant either the home grounds 

 or the school grounds with very little expense if one is willing to take time 

 to locate specimens that can be transplanted and if one will learn how to do 

 it. In transplanting shrubs or trees take up as much of the root system 

 as possible with a good-sized mass of adherent earth. Have a hole pre- 

 pared to receive it and set the plant promptly. Spread the roots, then 

 cover with soil, either washing it in or stamping it in. It needs to be packed 

 closely about the finer roots. The head of the tree or shrub should be cut 

 back so that it will be approximately the size of the root system set in the 



