CHAPTER TWO 



General Planting 



^i^4-^#NDER the head of "General Planting" come all those 

 •^ I I -^ miscellaneous kinds of planting which cannot be in- 

 ^^4-^% eluded in that of the garden proper. Foundation 

 planting, border planting, the planting along drives 

 and walks, screen planting, specimen planting, and miscellaneous 

 flower planting — all of these are worth discussing separately, 

 because very often one of these kinds, or a combination of two 

 of them, constitutes all the gardening which is done about a 

 place. 



Foundation planting, or the planting about the base of build- 

 ings, should have for its purpose not — as the nursery catalogue 

 would lead one to believe — masking the foundations, but making 

 the house look as if it belonged in its surroundings. There is 

 nothing about an honest foundation wall that needs concealing, 

 and it is unnecessary and undesirable that the house should grow 

 out of a solid bank of shrubbery in order to hide something which, 

 as likely as not, the architect has been at some pains to make in- 

 teresting. A judicious amount of planting here and there about 

 a house — at the corners or in angles, with something tall to carry 

 the green line up where there are no windows, and lower growing 



