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from the extremely coarse texture of foliage to the extremely fine 

 texture of foliage creates a discord in the landscape picture. 



There are many of the shrubs contained in the second group which 

 are those used to compose border plantations on a large scale where the 

 detailed study of the planting is not its most important side, but rather 

 where the general mass effects seen at a distance produce the interest- 

 ing effect. Shrubs which are selected for border planting on the re- 

 fined lawn areas, which are usually much more restricted than the ex- 

 tensive lawns, must stand the test of detailed study at the same time 

 that they prove their value as mass effects. 



The shrubs which are valuable for the less-refined and extensive 

 lawn areas may consist of some of the shrubs for refined lawn plant- 

 ings, such as the snowballs and the honeysuckles; but in general many 

 of these shrubs are more or less native and generally collected locally. 

 It is a difficult task to define the material which should be used in 

 border plantings on the larger lawn areas where the coarser mass effects 

 will meet the requirements. In general, most of the shrubs which are 

 adapted to plantings on the refined lawn areas are adapted to the 

 second type of plantings; but not all of the shrubs included in the 

 second group and adapted to the more unrefined lawn areas are 

 adapted in any way to use on the limited refined lawn areas. 



LIST OF PLANTS FOR BORDER PLANTING 



A. MASSES FOR REFINED LAWN AREAS. This group consists of 

 both low-growing and tall-growing types of shrubs, mostly of a hardy 

 foliage type, neat in the habit of their growth, compact in the texture 

 of their foliage, and comparatively free from the ravages of insects and 

 scale. The evergreen shrubs which can appropriately be interjected 

 into border plantings are few in number and must be used sparingly. 

 They are omitted from the following altogether. 



a. Low-growing shrubs (approximately three feet tall): 



Berberis thunbergi Deutzia lemoinei 



Thunberg's Japanese Barberry Lemoine's Deutzia 



Callicarpa purpurea Hypericum moserianum 



Beauty Fruit Gold Flower 



Caryopteris incana Hypericum patulum henryi 



Blue Spirea Hybrid St. John's Wort 



Deutzia gracilis Kerria japonica 



Slender Deutzia Globe Flower 



