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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, 



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 m.ass of Rubus 

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



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



