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The Garden Magazine, May, 1924 
SHRUBBERIES THAT LEND AN AIR OF WELCOME 
Mockorange (Philadelphus Lemoinei), Japan Barberry, and Vanhoutte Spiraea give sufficient all-season diversity and yet dispose 
themselves into an amicable unity of effect. Home of Mr. E. N. Saunders, St. Paul (Minn.); Holm & Olson, Landscape Architects 
giving all plantings a thorough and heavy soaking with water 
just before the ground freezes in the fall, so that they enter 
into the winter conditions with plenty of moisture about the 
roots. Mulching of trees, shrubs, and perennials—especially all 
newly made plantings—is also a decidedly essential practise. 
This mulch should be of some porous, non-packing material 
which will allow the air to enter as well as to hold the snow. 
Corn stalks and hay or straw have proven excellent for peren¬ 
nial beds. Strawy manure is fine for the shrub bed and for 
spreading beneath shade trees and hedges. Put the mulch 
on after the ground is frozen in the fall and remove as growth 
starts in the spring, not before. 
The more tender shrubs are also helped to winter over suc¬ 
cessfully if cultivation and watering is stopped in September. 
This discourages late, sappy growth which may not be suf¬ 
ficiently mature when freezing weather comes to stand the 
cold. Choice specimens of semi-tender shrubs are frequently 
wrapped with straw or even boxed to get them safely through 
the winter. The fruit grower has learned that sun-scald often 
proves disastrous to his young orchard and arranges to pro¬ 
tect the tree trunks from the south sun. This may be done 
through shading the trunk with flat boards or by wrapping 
with burlap. Smooth-barked shade trees such as Mountain 
Ash, Basswood, and Silver Maple should also be given this 
protection against the sun. Serious damage often results in 
late winter through the thawing of the bark on the side exposed 
to the warm southern sun during the day and the freezing again 
at night when the temperature falls. 
HARDY ORNAMENTAL PLANTS LOR LANDSCAPE USE IN NORTHERN GARDENS 
These lisfs are offered as general suggestions, being neither complete nor exhaustive. They com¬ 
prise the more commonly used plants which have proven satisfactory under Northern conditions 
i. DECIDUOUS TREES 
(A) Large-growing Kinds for Shade on Lawn or Boulevard. (No 
special reference is given as to desirability, the list being based more 
on hardiness and general use): 
Ash: American White, Green—Basswood—American Linden— 
Black Walnut—Butternut—Elm: American White—Hackberry 
—Maple: Sugar or Hard, Norway, Silver, Ash-leaved—Oak: Pin, 
Scarlet, Carolina, Balsam—Willows—Wild Black Cherry (Prunus 
serotina) 
(B) For Lawn Specimens and Ornamental Landscape Plantings: 
Birch: European White, Cut-leaf Weeping, Yellow, Paper— 
Flowering Crab: Bechtels, Parkman, Soulard—Horse-chestnut, 
and Ohio Buckeye—Larch: American, European—Locust: Black 
—Maple: Tartarian, Wier Cut-leaf—Mountain Ash: American, 
European—Mulberry: Red (native of southeast Minnesota)— 
Poplar: Bolleana, Lombardy—Thorn-apple: native species such 
as Crataegus mollis, macracantha, tomentosa—Willow: Laurel¬ 
leaved, Golden, Wisconsin Weeping, Niobe 
(C) Fall Foliage Coloration: 
Ash: American W'hite—Birch: Yellow, Sweet, White—Oak: 
Scarlet, Red, Pin—Maple: Sugar, Tartarian, Silver 
(D) Suited to Light and Sandy Soil: 
Birch—Bird-cherry—Locust—Maple: Tartarian, Ash-leaved— 
Oak: Scarlet—Poplar: White 
