Planting for Winter Effects— By I. G. Tabor, 



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A COLLECTION OF DETAIL PLANS WITH THE APPROPRIATE PLANTS -ALL PLANS, LARGE OR SMALL, ARE 

 AN AGGREGATION OF DETAILS WHICH CAN BE ADAPTED BY THE INDIVIDUAL TO SUIT HIS SPECIFIC CASE 



NO. ON 

 PLAN 



COMMON NAME 



A PLANTING plan dissected resolves 

 itself into surprisingly few small 

 parts. In fact there are something less 

 than twenty motifs, or groups, variously 

 applied — and no more. Hence it would 

 seem to follow that if one could disentangle 

 these and get each individual bit cut out by 

 itself and ready to fit into whatever nook 

 or corner it suited, he might plant almost any 

 kind of a place by them, from the fifty-footer 

 up to the fifty-acre — and expansively on, 

 as far as the imagination leadeth. 



Which is precisely the truth; there is no 

 difference between big places and little 

 places really, as far as groups, and sub- 

 groups, and borders, and all that sort of 

 thing, is concerned. The pattern simply 

 repeats oftener in the big place — that's all. 



The "bits" herewith presented are planned 

 with an eye especially to winter effect, and to 

 that end bright- 

 berried shrubs have 

 been chosen to make 

 up each group — but 

 this does not mean 

 that flowers have 

 been overlooked or 

 that the spring, and 

 the summer, and the 

 autumn effects have 

 been sacrificed. It 

 means rather that 

 in addition to all 

 that the garden has 

 to offer at these sea- 

 sons there is just so 

 much more. 



Coming directly 

 down to first prin- 

 ciples, the first little 

 layout presents the 

 problem of a walk 

 diverging from 

 another walk at right 

 angles. Perhaps it 

 is a path striking off 

 to another portion 

 of the grounds, per- 

 haps it is the walk 

 into the house from 

 the street — or pos- 

 sibly it is a drive- 

 way; it doesn't 

 really matter, you 

 see, what it is; in 

 any case the group- 

 ing would be the 

 •same. 



On the right the 

 shrubbery extends 

 in and along the 

 branch walk, hiding, 

 maybe, something 

 beyond, but on the 

 left this arrangement 

 is reversed and the 



line of planting follows the main walk, 

 leaving the view in that direction open, 

 once the turn is fairly made. 



There are four ways of applying this one 

 detail to the ground. First, just as it is; 

 second, by turning it exactly over if the 

 situation demands it; third, by taking away 

 the right-hand group which runs in and 

 along the branch walk and replacing it with 

 the grouping from the left side, turned over, 

 thus making two groups just alike; and 

 fourth, by taking away the shallow group 

 on the left similarly and putting the deeper 

 right hand group in its place. And then, 

 of course, one may be omitted entirely and 

 only one planted. 



The second detail shows a walk branching 

 on a curve, which makes very different 

 planting necessary; yet here again are two 

 groups which will lend themselves to many 



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 6... 



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11... 



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 13... 

 14... 



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 l6... 

 17... 

 l8... 

 19... 

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22. . . 

 23... 

 24... 

 23... 

 26... 

 27... 

 28... 



A. 

 B. 

 C. 



a. 

 b. 

 c. 

 d. 

 e. 

 L. 



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 h. 

 L. 



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k. 

 1.. 



V. 



Common barberry 



Japan barberry 



Purple-leaved barberry. . 

 Holly-leaved barberry. . . 



Red-osier dogwood 



Panicled dogwood 



European red dogwood.. 



Washington thorn 



Cork-barked euonymus.. 

 Evergreen spindle tree... 



Warty spindle tree 



Obovate-leaved spindle.. 



American holly 



Black alder 



Winterberry 



Amoor privet 



Morrow's honeysuckle 



Fly honeysuckle 



Bayberry 



Rugosa or Ramanas rose 



Native rose 



Sweet leaf 



Snowberry 



Indian currant 



Sea holly 



Cranberry bush 



Arrow wood 



White rod 



European white birch. . . 



Yellow willow 



American mountain ash. 



Austrian pine 



Swiss mountain pine. 



White fir 



Irish Yew 



STANDARD NAME 



Berberis vulgaris. . . 



Berberis Thunbergii 



Berberis vulgaris, var. purpurea 



Berberis Aquijolium 



Comus stolonijera 



Comus candidissima 



Comus sanguinea 



Crataegus cordata 



Euonymus alatus 



Euonymus Europceus, jructo albo 



Euonymus verrucosus 



Euonymus obovatus: 



Ilex opaca 



Ilex verticillata 



Ilex Icsvigata 



Ligustrum Amurense 



Lonicera Morrowii 



Lonicera Xylosteum 



Myrica cerijera 



Rosa rugosa 



Rosa lucida 



Symplocos cratcegoides 



Symphoricarpos racemosus 



Symphoricarpos vulgaris 



HippophcB rhamnoides 



Viburnum Opulus 



Viburnum dentatum 



Viburnum cassinoides 



Betula alba 



Salix vitellina, var. 

 Sorbus Americana.. 



Britzensis . 



EVERGREENS 



Pinus A ustriaca 



Pinus Montana, var. Mughus 



Abies concolor 



Juniperus vulgaris, var. Hibernica. 

 Red cedar I Juniperus Virginiana, var. glauca.. 



Golden-leaved cedar. 



Arborvitae 



Drooping arbor vitse. .. . 



Japan cypress 



Japan cypress plumose. 

 Dwarf Hinoki cypress.. 

 Hemlock 



False bitter-sweet. 



Juniperus V ., aurea variegata. 



Thuya orientalis 



Thuya orientalis, var. pendula 



Retinispora pisifera 



Retinispora pisifera, var. plumosa. . 



Retinispora obtusa, var. nana 



Tsuga Canadensis 



Celastrus scandens. 



HEIGHT 

 IN FEET 



4- 



2- 4.. 



4-8.. 

 3" 6-- 

 6- 8.. 



6-15- - 



8-12.. 



10-30.. 



8 



iS 



6 



1 

 15-40.. 



6-10. . 



4 



6 



6 

 10 



3" 6.- 



6 



6 

 15-25- - 



4 



4 



15 

 6- 



50-80. . 



25-5 -- 

 10-25.. 



3°-5°-- 

 2- S-- 



15-3°-- 

 5-15- - 

 5-15- - 

 5-15- - 

 5-15- ■ 

 5-15- - 



15-3°-- 



!5-3°-- 

 2-5.. 



3°-5°-- 



COLOR OF BERRIES 



situations and which .may be used inde- 

 pendently or together. 



The slight difference in the form of the 

 curve in the third detail makes a totally 

 different form in which the planting is to 

 be made, the right hand group becoming 

 here almost triangular. Thus out of three 

 problems there are six different groupings 

 and a number of combinations so great that 

 I won't attempt to suggest them all. 



Three treatments of a broad curve, either 

 of walk or drive, follow. The first, shown 

 in number 4, is an arrangement whereby the 

 walk itself is hidden completely and the 

 concealing shrubs are so placed that from 

 the lawn on either side they have the appear- 

 ance of being simply a loose and natural 

 thicket. Number 5 reverses this, present- 

 ing a low, irregular front of shrubs to the 

 walk itself with heavier ones backing them 

 up and closing out 

 the surroundings, 

 while in number 6 

 the shrubbery is 

 banked continu- 

 ously from the lawn 

 within the curve of 

 the walk up to the 

 outer row on the 

 outside of the curve. 

 These bits of walk 

 or roadway will be 

 found to fit as ac- 

 curately as is neces 

 sary, one to another , 

 so it is actually a 

 fact that here are 

 the integral curves 

 from which any 

 walk o r roadway, 

 extending any dis- 

 tance, may be com- 

 posed — with the 

 planting to fit them. 

 Planting at the 

 base of a building 

 must always be done 

 with restraint. The 

 welfare of the build- 

 i n g ought to be 

 considered as well 

 as its appearance — 

 and shrubs close set 

 against the walls 

 are bound to harbor 

 dampness, espec- 

 ially if thickly 

 massed. Keep the 

 most of them away 

 from the building, 

 allowing for free 

 circulation of air 

 around them. 



The detail for an 

 angle within an L is 

 shown in number 7 ; 





Red 



Red 



Purple 



Red 



White 



White 



Black 



Coral red 



Purple-red 



White 



Yellow — black seed 



Red 



Red 



Bright red 



Orange-red 



Blue-black 



Blood-red 



Dark red 



Bluish 



Brick red 



Red 



Blue 



White 



Coral 



Orange-yellow 



Scarlet 



Blue-black 



Pink, to dark blue . . . 



White bark 



Scarlet bark . . 



Red berries 



Bright green 



Warm olive 



Blue 



Bluish 



Silver green 



Golden variegated . . . 



Green-olive 



Green-olive 



Green 



Green 



Green 



Dark green 



Scarlet berries 



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