viii THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE 



Contents — continued 



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Plants for Sky Line Effects 136 



Berry-bearing Trees and Shrubs 137 



Plants Attractive to Birds 138 



Plants with Colored Foliage 139 



Rapid Growing Plant Materials 140 



Trees and Shrubs with Colored Bark 141 



Plants for City Conditions 141 



Street or Avenue Trees 142 



Plants for Foundation Plantings 143 



Ground Covers 144 



Vines for Various Purposes 145 



Aquatics or Water Plants 146 



Plants for Rock Gardens 146 



Succession of Bloom in Flowering Shrubs 148 



Index 151 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 Frontispiece — Suggested plan for the arrangement and planting of a home 



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Fig. 1 — Simple shrubbery border flanking a gate 2 



Fig. 2 — Placing the house on the property 6 



Fig. 3 — The subsoil should be graded as carefully as the surface 7 



Fig. 4 — When the house sets below the street grade 8 



Fig. 5 — If the old sub-grade pitches toward the house 9 



Fig. 6 — If the house is located above the street level 10 



Fig. 7 — If the house sets well back from the street 10 



Fig. 8 — Simplifying the grading of the suburban lot 11 



Fig. 9 — Possible treatments of a slightly rising lawn 12 



Fig. 10 — Lowering the grade around valuable trees 14 



Fig. 11 — Raising the grade around valuable trees 15 



Fig. 12 — A good outlet should be provided for drains 16 



Fig. 13 — Simple but effective type of dry well 16 



Fig. 14 — Type of dry well for a lawn 17 



Fig. 15 — Tree groups as excuses for curves in a drive 18 



Fig. 16 — ^Joining the walk or drive to the highway 19 



Fig. 17 — A formal entrance to an estate 20 



Fig. 18 — Simple but satisfactory arrangement of a walk 21 



Fig. 19 — The walk and drive kept separate 22 



Fig. 20 — Sometimes the drive can serve also as a walk 23 



Fig. 21 — When a long, straight path is unavoidable 24 



Fig. 22 — A long, straight path may have a hedge border 25 



Fig. 23 — Connecting the drive and the path 26 



Fig. 24 — Where the path is carried around the house 27 



