BORDER AND SCREEN PLANTINGS 
The Border Planting is the frame to your landscape picture. It may simply 
be a frame, or it may serve practical purposes as well. 
For Instance, possibly there is an impretty view from some of your windows or 
porch — a cut-away embanljment, an unliempt vacant lot, or the service yard ot 
your neighbor's place with its attendant line of clothes on wash-days. Or per- 
haps your neighbor is a bit careless and permits refuse to collect in the back 
yard. 
Perhaps your house may be close to your neighbor's. From the windows of the 
bouse next door one can look into your windows, or vice-versa. Lights from the 
otber bouse or from the street may annoy you. 
By the use of tall grovrtng material, you can screen out those unsightly views, 
and create privacy and seclusion. Or by the use of low intervals, you can 
Improve each delightful vista. The border planting may be made of shrubs, of 
trees, or shrubs and trees combined, or of evergreens. 
Low borders, merely for framing your picture, may be made from the materials 
listed under Foundation Plantings. If, however, you wish your border to serve 
as a screen, or for seclusion, taller-growing material is necessary. We list below 
various classes of plants for border plantings, and have grouped them In a 
manner similar to the way in which we presented materials for Foundation 
Planting. 
Remember to fill the back row with the taller sorts and grade down toward 
tJie lawn. If desired, you can use some of the material suggested for Fovmda- 
tion Plantings in the intermediate and front rows, as practically all such ma- 
terial is good for Border Plantings. At various intervals trees can be planted 
in the border to very good effect — preferably those sorts which do not make 
too heavy shade — the sorts with loose open tops. Also some of the small flower- 
ing trees. We submit below a list of shrubs suitable for Border Plantings, and 
also a list of trees suitable for planting in a shrub border — also otber classes of 
material for Border Plantings. 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS FOR BORDER AND SCREEN PLANTINGS 
Varieties Attaining a Height of 15 to 25 Feet 
(These varieties should be planted 6 feet apart) 
Purple Flowers Valuable for Fruit Effect 
False Indifiro (June) . „ . , - 
Amorpha JruUcosa White Fringe (Black fruit) 
Siberian Pea (June) CMonanthua virglnlca 
Oaragana arboreaoent Blue Dogwood (Dark blue berries) 
Cornelian Cherry (Mar. & April) Oornus altemifolia 
Oomus masoula 
U7U-. CI Cornelian Cherry (Scarlet fruit) 
White Flowers Oomus masoula 
Chiln^nfhua virainica ''^^^ * "'""^^ Spindle Tree (Scarlet-orange Irult) 
Blue Dogwood (May & June) Euonymut europaea 
Oornus alteiiUfoUa Staghorn Sumac (Brick-red fruit) 
Silver Bell (May) huts typhina 
Halesia earoUna 
Wayfaring Tree (May) Wayfaring Tree (Fruit red, turning black) 
Viburnum lantana Viburnum lantana 
