Planting with a Real Purpose—steEruen F. HAMBLIN 
WHAT YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE YOU CAN BUY INTELLIGENTLY—HOW TO SELECT THE PROPER TYPE OF 
PLANT TO FIT THE PLACE—FIGURING COSTS 
LANTING gives the finish to all 
garden construction. It has little 
consideration in the preliminary 
study for arrangement, as even the 
entire design of the garden may be de- 
cided upon regardless of the plants to 
be used; it has no relation to the engi- 
neering involved; and may be one of the 
smallest items of expense in construc- 
tion. Yet it may dominate the design, 
cause expensive construction, and the 
item of planting may exceed that of 
roads or structures. Further, good 
entire design of the garden may be de- 
sign or of construction, and make great 
show at little expense; and equally, a 
poor use of plants may seriously mar a 
good design and outweigh a careful 
workmanship of construction. As it 
comes after the general considerations 
TREES 
Height 
tall—100 ft. ......... Elm, American 
lange— 60) ft. were. = Linden, American 
medium—40 ft. ...... Apple, Crab 
EXAMPLE 
smali——20 tbo 222... - Dogwood, Flowering 
Leafage 
early in leaf 
late in leaf 
shade dense 
shade light 
evergreen 
autumn coloration ....Maple, Red 
MATS Opry eave ee So Catalpa 
small Willow 
hang late Oak, English 
drop early Sycamore 
Clits yon ails Selo shins Maple, Weir’s 
colored Beech, Purple 
Habit 
narrow 
spreading 
irregular 
shrubby 
peculiar 
Lombardy Poplar 
Oak, White 
Apple 
Hawthorn 
Beech, Weeping 
Poplar 
Tupelo 
easily moved Villow 
difficult to move ..... Hickory 
hard wooded 
soft wooded 
poor soil 
rich soil 
wet soil 
dry soil 
» insects and disease ... 
free from disease 
Use 
shade 
flowers 
Walnut, Black 
Willow 
Birch, Gray 
Magnolia 
Maple, Red 
Locust, Black 
Apple 
Birch, Canoe 
Beech, Purple 
Oaks 
Magnolia 
Norway Spruce 
Arborvitae 
specimen 
forest 
lawn 
windbreak 
hedge 
SHRUBS 
Height 
treelike (over 15 ft.) .Redbud 
10 to 15 ft Viburnum 
Rosa rugosa 
i ibete Meer eid Meiners vials Japanese Barberry 
trailing Dewberry 
EXAMPLE 
Leaves 
Mountain Laurel 
Hydrangea 
Barberr 
it takes on undue importance in the eye 
of the average person. 
In a sense, the planting is like the 
cover of a book, or the clothes a man 
wears. Its place is unique in landscape 
construction; it is the most elastic of 
the items to be considered. It is neither 
unimportant nor all-important, but the 
obvious test of good work. 
It should enter to a certain degree 
into every consideration of modifica- 
tions of the landscape, and while it may 
be decided after the work is well under 
way, it should influence all plan making 
from the very start. So far as I can, for 
the sake of simplicity, I shall consider it 
by itself as apart from design, construc- 
tion, and costs. 
The first general decision must be 
made as to amount. There are the two 
EXAMPLES OF PLANT TYPES 
SHRUBS 
Leaves—Continued 
colored 
fragrant 
cut 
bark colored 
Flowers 
white 
blue 
yellow 
red 
fragrant 
EXAMPLE 
Purple Barberry 
Sweet Fern 
Cut-leaved Hazel 
Red Osier Dogwood 
Spirea Van Houttei 
Rose of Sharon 
Forsythia 
Weigela 
Honeysuckle 
Forsythia 
Witth Hazel 
Barberry 
Sweet Fern 
Rhododendron 
very dry 
very wet 
standing water 
full sun 
shade 
Care 
no pruning 
much pruning 
insects and disease 
Use 
screen 
hedge 
undergrowth 
specimen 
flower mass 
lawn 
rock garden 
waterside 
Pussy Willow 
Buttonbush 
Spireas 
Blueberry 
Hawthorn 
Hydrangea 
Barberry 
Hazel 
Rose of Sharon 
Spirea Van Houttei 
Weigela 
Hypericum 
Elder 
VINES EXAMPLE 
Habit 
clinging 
twining 
scrambling 
Boston Ivy 
English Ivy 
Actinidia 
vigorous : 
Clematis 
slender 
Dutchman’s Pipe 
Wisteria 
Evonymus radicans 
Use 
buildings 
walls 
fences 
trellis 
flowers 
thickets 
ground cover 
Boston Ivy 
Virginia Creeper 
Grape 
Clematis 
Wisteria 
Lycium halimifolium 
Hall’s Honeysuckle 
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extremes. The simplest solution is to 
reduce all planting to the minimum, and 
there are places where this is desirable, 
especially in city conditions. Houses, 
trees and cars can’t occupy the same 
ground at once, and it is well that most 
foliage be omitted. A city is not a for- 
est nor a lawn. But the grounds about 
many homes, churches, and municipal 
buildings are as bare as a barn or a 
bald head, and about as ornamental. 
Lack of ornamentation is not beauty, 
and most people who think at all about 
the matter will admit that a certain 
amount of trees, grass and flowers is 
desirable wherever we go. Architects’ 
show plans always have “foliage.” Of 
what this may consist is a matter of 
taste and training. 
The other extreme is a wealth of 
PERENNIALS 
Heights, from creeping to 10 ft. 
Months of Bloom (from March to October) 
Color of Flower 
[The most important lists. Many have been 
given in earlier issues of THE GARDEN MaGa- 
ZINE. | 
Growth 
long lived 
transient 
weedy 
spreaders 
tender 
bulbous 
deep rooted 
Foxglove 
Wild Geranium 
Golden Glow 
Lily 
Hollyhock 
shallow rooted 
shrubby 
needs staking 
raised from seed 
hold seed all winter. . 
Soil 
aquatics 
stream margins 
bog 
wet meadow 
moist woods 
dry, open woods ..... 
dense shade 
poor soil in sun 
Salli bya sollleeeeete rere 
Foliage 
evergreen 
effective after bloom... 
ragged after bloom ... 
bold leafage 
finely cut foliage .... 
aromatic 
resist autumn frosts . 
Flowers 
very large 
inconspicuous 
massed above leaves . 
fragrant 
very early 
very late 
long bloomers 
short bloomers 
Use 
border 
cut-flowers 
massing 
shrubbery 
formal garden 
rock garden 
Coreopsis 
Peony 
Larkspur 
Larkspur 
.Siberian Iris 
Water-lily 
Caltha 
Pitcher-plant 
Joe-pye-weed 
Lady’s Slipper 
. Asters 
Plantain-lily 
Butterfly-weed 
Marsh Goldenrod 
Yueca 
Peony 
Hollyhock 
Rhubarb 
Meadow-rue 
Lavender 
. Phlox 
Hollyhock; Peony 
Ferns 
.Iris 
Siberian Squills 
Chrysanthemums 
Shasta Daisy 
Oriental Poppy 
Creeping Phlox 
wild planting (seeSoil) Native Plants 
specimen 
special uses, ete 
Plume Poppy 
[spreads] 
