BEAUTIFYING HOME GROUNDS 537 



and seldom in front of shrubbery, as effectively or so practically as hardy 

 perennials of the other class. 



These are all principles and ideals to observe in drawing a plan for 

 home ornamentation. As to detail, each place is a problem unto itself, 

 to be solved with due regard to two services — convenience of use and land- 

 scape charm. Nature is a good instructor in principles. From her exam- 

 ples in field and wood we learn of the "open center" of lawn with borders 

 of massed foliage, of the beauty in flowing, rounded outline, both of foliage 

 and of ground. We cannot copy nature, but we can and should derive 

 much inspiration and many ideas in the uses of trees, shrubs, vines, flowers 

 and grasses, and how to combine them into good groups and masses. A 

 few uses and combinations follow. They are merely catalogued. Perhaps 

 they will suggest details in the comprehensive plan. 



SUGGESTED MATERIALS 



Street Trees for roadside or driveway should consist of one species upon one road, but 

 different species upon different roads. 

 Maples. — Sugar, Red, Norway, distances, 45-35-40 feet. 

 Oaks. — Red, Pin, Scarlet, Mossy Cup, distances, 45-30-35 feet. 

 Elm. — American, the ideal American tree, distances, 45 to 60 feet. 

 Linden. — American Basswood, European or Crimean, distances, 45-35-32 feet. 

 Plane. — European (or Oriental), distance, 35 feet. 

 Ash. — American white, distance, 35 feet. 

 Gingko. — Chinese Maidenhair Tree, (narrow streets only), distance, 25 feet. 



Trees for lawn planting, besides those mentioned for street use: 

 Oaks. — White, English, Golden, Pyramidal. 



Maple. — -Weir's Cut-leaf, Purple, Norway, Cork-barked, Tartarian. 

 Elm. — Cork-barked, Scotch, Japanese. 

 Linden. — Silver, Weeping Silver, Broad-leaved. 

 Mountain Ash. 

 Empress Tree (Paulonia). 

 Larch. — European and Japanese. 

 Bald Cypress. — -An excellent. 

 Magnolias. — Chinese .species. 

 Buckeye. 

 Japanese Maples. 



Pine. — -White, Swiss, Dwarf Mountain, Austrian. 

 Fir. — Douglass, Colorado Silver. 

 Spruce. — Englemann, Colorado Blue, Eastern, Norway. 



For screen planting, to obscure objectionable views: 

 Poplars. — Lombardy, Bolles Silver, White. 

 Willows. — White, Laurel-leaved. 

 Mulberry. — White. 



Maple. — Weir's Cut-leaf, Water or Box Elder. 

 Birch.— White, Red. 

 Ailanthus. 

 Spruce. — Norway. 

 Pine. — Austrian, Scotch, White. 



Arbor vitee . — Western . 



Shrubs for screen: 



Sumacs, Privet, Nine-bark, Elder, Alders, Dogwood, Witch Hazel, Red Bud, Shad 

 Bush, Bush Honeysuckle. 



