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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



plant for decorative planting, when it is kept under control. 

 The plants in this border in front of the porch are all from the 

 wild, and comprise a prickly ash, several plants of two wild 

 osiers or dogwoods, a spice bush, rose, wild sunflowers and 

 asters and golden-rods. The promontory at the left is a more 

 ambitious but less effective mass. It contains an exochorda, 

 a reed, variegated elder, sacaline, variegated dogwood, tansy, 

 and a young tree of wild crab. At the rear of the plantation, 



38. Plan of the planting shown in Fig. 37. 



next the house, one sees the pear tree. The best single part of 

 the planting is the reed {Arundo Donax) overtopping the 

 exochorda. The photograph was taken early in summer, before 

 the reed had become conspicuous. 



A ground plan of this planting is shown in Fig. 38. At A is 

 the walk and B the steps. An opening at D serves as a passage. 

 The main planting, in front of the porch, fourteen feet long, 

 received twelve plants, some of which have now spread into 

 large clumps. At 1 is a large bush of osier, Cornus Baileyi, 

 one of the best red-stemmed bushes. At 2 is a mass of Rubus 

 odoratus; at 5 asters and golden-rods; at 3 a clump of wild 



