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House Garden 
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Any style of roof will keep out the weather—any kind 
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source of trouble and expense—may even cause personal 
Injury or damage to your car. 
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Viburnum aceri- 
folimii is of that 
great family of 
woodsy shrubs hav¬ 
ing white blossoms 
and brilliant fruits 
SHRUBS for SHADY PLACES 
T "[NDER the far reaching branches of 
the hardwoods there is always a 
certain degree of light absorption. The 
profusely developed leaves catch the 
greater part of the light, permitting only 
a small quantity to pass to the ground 
below. But here and there, wherever 
there is a jagged opening in the leafy 
canopy, does the sun light dance upon the 
shrubs and bushes to be found growing in 
the damp soil of wooded regions. 
Light is by far the most important 
external factor affecting the form and 
structure of plant life, for the duration 
and intensity of the illumination may be 
either invigorating or restricting, creative 
or destructive. The growth of stem and 
roots is accelerated during periods of 
darkness while the leaves require a 
moderate amount of light for their most 
rapid growth. Buds begin their develop¬ 
ment only when the intensity of light 
has reached a definite stage. 
When intense light is received by true 
shade plants, they die, their chlorophyll 
being decomposed. But this is an excep¬ 
tionally rare occurrence in nature for the 
majority of plants are provided with 
devices which can take care of the excess 
illumination. Some have hairs for this 
purpose, others color the young foliage a 
red or a pale yellowish white, while still 
others are able to turn the blade of the 
leaf so that it will not receive quite so 
much light. 
It is light which is responsible for the 
places inhabited by various plants, for 
each type requires, in fact demands, a 
certain quantity and quality of light for 
its best development. It is for this reason 
alone that the flora of the fields and 
meadows, where there is a superabun¬ 
dance of light, differs from that of the 
forest, where there is always obscurity, 
and it is for the same reason that the 
vegetation of the forest is quite distinc¬ 
tive from that at the edge of the woods, 
where there is always a gentle half-light. 
Since each species of tree has its oLvn 
distinctive type of foliage, the light which 
it permits to pass must also vary, and, 
based upon this characteristic fact, each 
tree site has its own peculiar underbrush. 
If this is transplanted to other conditions, 
it will either vegetate or gradually die. 
These conditions must be taken into 
account when planting shrubs and bushes 
in a wooded garden. When ornamental 
and decorative shrubs are considered for 
such sites, their number is exceptionally 
small, and even these few do not thrive 
when planted under a dense canopy of 
forest giants whose uppermost branches 
interlock, preventing the light from 
reaching the ground. Conditions are far 
better where the stand is not so dense 
and where the crowns permit partial 
illumination of the soil beneath them. 
Then, when the matted roots have been 
removed, and new soil added to a depth 
of one foot to that place where the shrub 
is to stand, it will usually thrive. Such 
plants should generally be set out in the 
fall, the months of September-October 
being best, but, above all, the plants 
selected must have a good root system. 
The most desirable evergreen species 
for such a locality is Mahonia {Berberis 
aquifoUum). It is a shrub which is always 
attractive since it does not lose its foliage. 
But still the hard, leathery leaves change 
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If your soil contains no lime, if it is nourished and shaded by 
oaks, and if there is protection from sweeping winter winds, 
then mountain laurel, massed as it grows ftaturally, should 
thrive and be beautiful 
