Book of Gardens 
PLANTINGS FOR THE 
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Straight, hedge-like ef¬ 
fects should be avoided 
in foundation planting. 
The plan at the left, and 
the photograph of its ac¬ 
tual planting below, em¬ 
body irregularities which 
should exist. C. S. Le- 
Sure, landscape architect 
Shrubs should be so selected that 
the planting will have general year- 
round beauty. There should be good 
flower value in spring and early sum¬ 
mer, attractive summer foliage, bril¬ 
liant autumn leaves, colored barks 
and fruits for fall and winter. A list 
of good shrubs, together with the dis¬ 
tances apart at which they should be 
planted, is as follows: 
Tall shrubs: white kerria, Zf/i \ 
Arabia pentaphylla, 3'; Spiraea van 
Houttci, Zy Regel’s privet, 3'; Eng¬ 
lish privet, 3'; Persian lilac, 4'-5'. 
Low shrubs: Japanese barberry, 2'- 
2 ]/ 2 r \ snowberry, 2'; Indian currant, 
2'; spirea Anthony Waterer, 2'; 
Deutzia gracilis, 2'; Spiraea callosa 
alba, 2'; and Stephanandra flexu- 
osa, 2'. 
The shrubs should be planted in 
thoroughly prepared and fertilized 
beds of pleasing outline, long, smooth 
curves being the best, as indicated in 
the plans. The distance apart to 
plant varies with the different species. 
The spaded beds should be kept cul¬ 
tivated during the growing season un¬ 
til the mass occupies the entire area. 
Autumn is the generally, recognized 
season for deciduous shrub planting, 
since bushes set then become thor¬ 
oughly established before any de¬ 
mands are made upon them by the 
growing season. But if they are 
planted in the spring as soon as the 
ground can be worked, there is no ex¬ 
cuse for failure. 
HOUSE FOUNDATION 
F OUNDATION planting is essential to the 
completed appearance of a house and 
should be put in as soon as the building is fin¬ 
ished. A new home without an effective plant¬ 
ing is almost as incomplete as the interior 
without the draperies or the pictures on the 
walls. Neither is absolutely necessary for 
physical comfort, but both are needed for com¬ 
plete mental enjoyment. 
The principles underlying this or any other 
type of good landscape planting are not com¬ 
plicated. In the first place, simplicity is of 
paramount importance. The reason so many 
places are spoiled is attributable to a desire to 
have every kind of plant advertised, which 
naturally results in a botanical collection 
rather than a landscape garden. 
There must be variety and harmony in the 
shrub planting. Varieties should be selected 
which blend easily together to form the general 
mass effect. The form of the planting, or the 
contour of the shrubs, must be carefully con¬ 
sidered. Variety in this respect is secured by 
setting taller growing kinds at the corners of 
the house and flanking the entrances. The 
other spaces may then be filled in with some¬ 
what lower growing sorts, and the taller or 
accent shrubs faced with lower plants like 
Japanese barberry, dwarf spireas and deutzias. 
The great aim of founda¬ 
tion planting is to tie the 
house to its site. Here 
only six kinds of shrubs 
have been used to obtain 
the desired effect. White 
kerria and snowberry flank 
the 1 simple Colonial entrance 
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