Ground-Covers and Special-Purpose 
Shrubs 
O FTENTIMES an unsightly slope, which is a source of trouble on 
account of the surface slipping or washing during heavy rains, can 
be made attractive by planting low-growing shrubs, whose inter¬ 
lacing roots and tops will also hold the soil. Among the plants valuable for 
this purpose, besides those listed here, are the varieties of Climbing Honey¬ 
suckle, Forsythia suspe7isa, all the low-growing single Roses found under 
spring- and summer-flowering shrubs, and especially Rosa wichuraiana, the 
Japanese Trailing Rose, and its hybrids. 
Then again, the neatness and beauty of most evergreen plantings can 
be enhanced by a very low ground-cover; and for this purpose we find most 
useful, Japanese Spurge, all the varieties of Japanese Ivy, Euonymus, 
Periwinkle or Myrtle, Aaron’s Beard, and the English Ivy, which as a 
trailing plant is often hardy where it winter-kills when trained on a wall. 
Sweet Fern Comptonia asplenifolia 
Adapted to planting in dry, gravelly soils for ground-cover; low-growing with 
aromatic foliage. Each 10 100 
18 to 24 in.$0 50 $3 50 $25 00 
Box Thorn, or Matrimony Vine Lyciutn chinense 
Its long, arching branches, rising from the ground, make it valuable for use on 
steep banks or to hang over the top of retaining walls. It is rapid spreading and 
low, with a profusion of coral-red berries in fall. E E 10 inn 
2 to 3 ft.$0 35 $2 50 $10 00 
3 to 4 ft. 50 3 50 15 00 
Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera 
A valuable low shrub for planting in poor soil as a ground-cover. Very beau¬ 
tiful dark green leaves and pretty, gray winter berries closely hugging the stem. 
12 to 15 in. 
15 to 18 in. Bushy 
Each 10 100 
$0 50 $4 00 $30 00 
75 5 00 35 00 
Yellow Root Xanthorrhiza apiifolia 
As an underplanting of high shrubs or as a ground-cover in any moist, shady 
place, this low, spreading plant is unexcelled. It is beautiful in the fall on account 
of the coloring of its rich yellow foliage. 
6 to 8 in. 
10 to 12 in. 
Each 
.$0 25 
35 
10 
$2 00 
2 00 
100 
$5 00 
8 00 
Low-bush Honeysuckle Diervilla trifida 
This low, spreading shrub, bearing attractive little yellow flowers along the 
branches, is particularly useful in large masses for clothing slopes, or may be 
used in the shrubbery, 
11 / or Each 10 
iy 2 to 2 it.. 35 $2 00 
2 to 3 ft . 50 4 00 
100 
$15 00 
20 00 
Shrubby Honeysuckle 
Higher-growing than the 
way. 
2 to 3 ft. 
3 to 4 ft. 
Diervilla sessilifolia 
above; yellow flowers in clusters; useful in the same 
Each 10 100 
.$0 25 $2 00 $15 00 
. 50 3 50 20 00 
NO CHARGE FOR PACKING 
