PLANTS FOR VARIOUS SITUATIONS 99 



The foregoing list of plants, while fairly compre- 

 hensive, is by no means exhaustive but is rather 

 intended to direct the reader *s search for special 

 plants for special positions. Almost any good floral 

 catalogue — Dreer's specially — will give detailed de- 

 scriptions of the several plants and their various 

 varieties from which intelligent selections may be 

 made. 



The heights given the various plants, as well as 

 their season of bloom must be taken as approximate 

 rather than definite, as the part of the country in 

 which they are grown will have much to do with the 

 size they attain. The nearer their native habitat they 

 are planted the more generous, of course, will be their 

 development. Then, too, the matter of a poor or gen- 

 erous soil, the amount of cultivation and general care 

 will all be determining factors in the size they attain, 

 their period of bloom, and size of bloom. 



In the matter of vines the water supply is im- 

 portant, and the supplying of an adequate support 

 will determine in a large measure the height to which 

 they will grow. Certain vines, as for instance, the 

 trumpet vine, if given a low support will grow to the 

 top of it and then form a bushy head, ceasing, for all 

 practical purposes, to be a vine. Such a trumpet vine 

 growing on my own premises by the side of a gate 

 post assumed this voluntary f orpi, while a sister plant 

 in the more favorable position supplied by a tall pear 



