FOR A VILLAGE HOME 
Practical Plans for 
Planting Little Gardens 
STEPHEN F. HAMBLIN 
Instructor, School of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University 
The details of any given plan may not be fully 
applicable to more than one place though the underlying 
principles are always the same. These plans are sug¬ 
gestions of four different types of garden and make use 
of plants that are easily obtainable. 
FOR THE SMALL SUBURBAN LOT 
(See left) 
A. 
Sugar Maple 
10. 
Staghorn Sumac 
B. 
Indian Bean 
11. 
Ramanas Rose 
C. 
Tree-of-Heaven 
12. 
Flowering Raspberry 
1. 
Thunberg’s Spirea 
13 - 
Wild Hydrangea 
2. 
Van Houtte’s Spirea 
■ 4 - 
Weeping Goldenbell 
3 - 
Japanese Spirea 
1 5 - 
Japanese Privet 
4 - 
Flowering Currant 
16. 
Dutchman’s Pipe 
5 - 
Bladder Senna 
• 7 - 
Japanese Bittersweet 
6. 
Japanese Barberry 
18. 
Rose (Dorothy Perkins) 
7 - 
Purple Barberry 
19. 
Panicled Clematis 
8. 
Five-leaved Aralia 
20. 
Virginia Creeper 
9 - 
Smooth Sumac 
(See plan 
below) 
Shrubs 
59. 
Red-berried Elder 
81. 
Japanese Azalea 
104. 
60. 
Tamarisk 
82. 
Ghent Azalea 
105. 
1. 
Hercules’ Club 
61. 
Flowering Currant 
83. 
Evergreen Azalea (amoenum) 
106. 
2. 
Tree-of-Heaven 
62. 
Many-tlowered Rose 
84. 
Japanese Mountain Azalea 
107. 
3 - 
Dwarf Buckeye 
63. 
Prairie Rose 
(Kaempferi) 
108. 
4 - 
Redbud 
64. 
Ramanas Rose 
8s. 
Yellow Bush Pea 
109. 
5 - 
White Fringe 
65. 
Sweet Brier Rose 
86. 
Dwarf Broom 
110. 
6. 
Witch Hazel 
66. 
Red-leaved Rose 
87. 
New England Whin 
7 - 
Rose of Sharon 
67. 
White June Rose (Mme. Plantier) 
88. 
Scotch Broom 
8. 
Flowering Dogwood 
68. 
Pink Hybrid Ramanas 
Rose 
89. 
Garland Flower 
9 - 
Cockspur Thorn 
(Conrad Ferdinand Meyer) 
90. 
St. John’s Wort 
a. 
10. 
Hall’s Starry Magnolia 
69. 
White Hybrid Ramanas 
Rose 
91. 
Prostrate Rose-box 
b. 
11. 
Flowering Plum 
(Sir Thomas L.ipton) 
92. 
Sand Myrtle 
c. 
12. 
Parkman's Crab 
70. 
Fragrant Sumac 
93 - 
Stagger-bush 
d. 
• 3 - 
Bechtel’s Double Flowering Crab 
71. 
Mountain Laurel 
94. 
Hairy Rose-bay 
e. 
14. 
Common Barberry 
72 - 
Great Rose-bay 
95 - 
Flowering Almond 
f. 
13 - 
Chinese Barberry 
73 - 
Mountain Rose-bay 
96. 
White Flowering Raspberry 
g- 
16. 
Siebold’s Barberry 
74 - 
Hybrid Rose-bay 
97 - 
Sweet Pea Shrub 
h. 
17 - 
Five-leaved Aralia 
75 - 
Japanese Barberry 
98. 
Coralberry 
i. 
18. 
Shadbush 
76. 
Evergreen Barberry 
99. 
Evergreen Garland Flower 
j- 
19. 
False Indigo 
77 - 
Slender Deutzia 
too. 
Thread Lily 
k. 
20. 
Flame Azalea 
78. 
Thunberg’s Spirea 
101. 
Virginia Creeper 
1 . 
21. 
Strawberry Shrub 
79 - 
Japanese Spirea 
102. 
Dutchman’s Pipe 
m. 
22. 
Bladder Senna 
80. 
Bumald’s Spirea 
103. 
Sterile Grape 
n. 
23. Burning Bush 
24. Winged Burning Bush 
25. Japanese Oleaster 
26. Weeping Goldenhell 
27. Green-barked Goldenbell 
28. Winterberry 
29. Tartarian Honeysuckle 
30. Early Honeysuckle 
31. Chinese Privet 
32. Staghorn Sumac 
33. Buckthorn 
34. Hop-tree 
35. Double Tall Deutzia (Pride of 
Rochester) 
36. Pink Tall Deutzia (Watereri) 
37. Lemoine’s Deutzia 
38. Pink Weigela 
39. White Weigela 
40. Red Weigela (Eva Rathke) 
41. Rose Weigela (Abel Carriere) 
42. Yellow Weigela 
43. Sweet Pepper Bush 
44. Alternate-leaved Dogwood 
45. Purple Hazel 
46. High Bush Cranberry 
47. Arrow-wood 
48. Japanese Snowball 
49. Japanese Viburnum 
50. Himalayan Lilac 
51. White Hybrid Lilac (Mme. 
Lemoine) 
52. Red Hybrid Lilac (Chas. X.) 
53. White Lilac 
54. Mock Orange 
55. Hybrid Mock Orange 
56. Van Houtte’s Spirea 
57. Snow Garland 
58. Ash-leaved Spirea 
Panicled Clematis 
Trees 
Showy Magnolia 
Coffee-tree 
Indian Bean 
Yellowwood 
European Beech 
Maidenhair Tree 
English Elm 
Engelmann’s Spruce 
Hemlock 
Siberian Arborvitae 
Dwarf Arborvitae (T 
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