FOUNDATION PLANTING 
assumed that this house stands on a smal! lot of level ground, that 
it is placed near the street and that the porch faces the south as 
indicated by the arrow on the plan. 
The pupil should redraw this plan in full detail to a suitable 
scale. He should then make a careful study of the planting list as 
given and should identify all the species therein listed. He should 
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make every effort to visualize the finished result and to understand 
why each group of plants have been placed in the position indicated. 
This being done it will be important for the pupil to make a new 
planting plan giving his own ideas of appropriate foundation plant- 
ings for the same house but using other material. In this restudy 
the pupil should first have especial regard to the selection of plants 
suitable to his own locality, and second he should be careful to sat- 
isfy his own preferences. Such plantings are, to a large extent, 
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