COVER PLANTS and CREEPERS 



VAGCINIUM pennsylvanicum. Narrow-leaved Dwarf Blueberry and V. vacillans. 



Low Blueberry. Little plants 8 to 20 inches high that give you delicious sweet Blue- 

 berries. You can plant as Nature does under Oak trees and know that you are help- 

 ing the Oak trees because the Huckleberry holds the leaves upon which both feed. 

 This is the most important and the most neglected principle of plant growth. 



Sods : , 50c. each, $4.00 per 10, $30.00 per 100 



VINCA. Myrtle, Periwinkle. Around old houses Myrtle makes a shiny green carpet, 

 especially solid in the shade of Evergreens, Oaks and Locusts, but not Maples. Use 

 it to carpet the ground under shrubs; mix with Pachysandra and Ferns to hold the 

 mulch under Laurel and Rhododendron. Children take almost as much delight in 

 finding the first Myrtle as the first violet. 



Clumps. 30c. each, $2.50 per 10, $20.00 per 100 



VIOLA pedata. Bird's Foot Violet. Light, sky-blue flowers carpet the Hempstead 

 plains for miles. 



30c. each, $2.00 per 10, $15.00 per 100. 



There are many other cover plants as HELI ANTHEM UM canadense or Frost 

 Weed, HUDSONIA ericoides or Heathlike Hudsonia or Pine Barren Heather, 

 ASTER linafolius, CHRYSOPSIS mariana or Golden Aster, TEPHROSIA 

 virginiana or Hoary Pea and SALIX humilis or Dwarf Willow. These grow about 

 6 inches to 2 feet high on the Hempstead Plains, the Pine Barrens and sandy hills. 

 They all have a grey-green color due to the silky hairs which lessen transpiration from 

 the foliage. You can make a gray landscape with them. They thrive and look cheer- 

 ful on sterile dry situations. 



50c. each, $4.00 per 10, $30.00 per 100. 



Otter Cover Plants Include: 



SCRUB OAK. See page 11 



COMMON JUNIPER. See page 16 



HAZELUT. See page 24 



ZANTHORHIZA, Yellow Root. See page.31 

 SCOTCH HEATHER. See page 32 



COTONEASTER. See page 32 



CLIMBING ROSES. See page 37 



HONEYSUCKLE. See page 35 



MOSS PINK. Seepage 45 



SEDUM. Seepage 45 



Small plants for extensive planting are offered in this catalogue in some va- 

 rieties. There .are many more available in the nursery. We will be glad to send 

 you a list or show you the stock which includes Maples, Dogwood, Hawthorn, 

 Beech and Oak. The Oak is particularly available and we strongly urge people 

 to make, extensive plantations of small trees 1 foot to 6 feet high. They have 

 long tap roots and can be planted in the early Winter in holes 20 inches deep made 

 by a crowbar. Small shrubs can be planted at the same time as Azaleas, Bar- 

 berry, Clethra, Red Twigged Dogwood, Hazelnut, Deutzia, Silver Thorn, Euony- 

 mus, Golden Bell, Bush Honeysuckle, Bayberry, Sumac, Lilac, Blueberry, 

 Viburnum. Small evergreens may be planted in the Spring as Pine, Spruce, 

 Fir, 6 inches to 2 feet high. We will be glad to help you carry out your ideas with 

 material that will be best permanently and which will be economical in first cost. 



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