November, 1918 
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PLANTING LIST FOR WOODSY BORDER 
TREES 
Height 
1. Larix laricina, 1 plant, specimen. 
American larch, deciduous evergreen, 
feathery light green loliage in spring, 
good with red maple, 2'-3' Si.50... 5'-6 
2. Acer rubrurn, 14 plants. 3'-5' apart. 
Red maple, saplings planted thickly 
to secure woodsy effect, deep red 
blossoms and opening leaves in 
spring. 3'-4 
3. Amelanchier canadensis, 5 plants, 
3'-4' apart. Shad-bush, small trees, 
white blossoms, good witn red maple. 3'-4' 
4. Liquldambar styraciflua, 1 plant as 
specimen. Sweet gum, red in 
autumn. 6-8 
5. Salix caprea, 2 plants, 3' apart. 
Goat willow or pussy willow, at¬ 
tractive in spring for the pussies. 
Secure staminate plants. 4-5 
6. Populus tremuloides, 5 plants closely 
grouped. Aspen, attractive creamy 
green bark in winter, picturesque 
form, interlacing branches. 8'-10' 
7. Comus ftorida, 5 plants, 3' apart as 
specimens well to front. Flowering 
dogwood, white. May, 3'-4' 3 .50.. 4'-5 
SHRUBS 
8. Comus allerniftlia, 9’plants, 4' apart. 
Alternate-leaved dogwood, tall shrub 
of graceful tree-like form, white 
flowers, blue fruit. 3'-4' 
Price 
each 
S4.00 
.35 
.35 
1.25 
.50 
i .00 
.75 
.35 
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11 . 
12 . 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
SHRUBS 
Height 
Azalea nudiflora, 3 plants, 3' apart. 
Pinxter flower, pink flowers, likes 
shade and moisture.. • • 15 
Sambucus canadensis, 5 plants, 3 —4' 
apart. Black-berried elder, large 
white flowers good with roses in July. 
Edible fruit, leggy, needs facing, 
2'-3' $ .35. 3 —4' 
Rosa blanda, 12 plants, 2' apart. 
Single wild rose, typical single pink 
wild rose, not fragrant, red winter 
twigs.1 K'-2' 
Alnus glutinosa, 4 plants, 4' apart. 
Alder, interesting dark brown fruits 
and twigs for winter effect. 3'—4' 
Comus sanguinea, 10 plants, 4' apart. 
Red twigged dogwood, white flowers 
in May, spreading form, faces down 
well, blood red twigs In winter.2'-3' 
Rhus glabra, 8 plants, 3' apart. 
Smooth sumac, upright form, red 
fruits and autumn foliage. 2'-3' $ .35. 3'-4’ 
Rhus copalllna, 8 plants, 3' apart. 
Shining sumac, glossy leaves with 
winged petioles, vivid autumn red, 
medium size and bushy, 2'-3' $ .35.. 3'—4' 
Aronia melanocarpa, 7 plants, 3' 
apart. Black fruited chokeberry, 
single white flowers in May. glossy 
black fruit. 2'-3' 
ilex certidllala, 5 plants, 3' apart. 
Northern holly, showy red berries. 
Dioecious, get both forms or it will 
not fruit. 2' 
Price 
each 
.75 
.75 
.25 
.50 
.25 
.50 
.50 
.35 
.35 
burnum dentatum, and the Japanese barberry 
in combination with birches and witch hazel 
is anything but commonplace. 
However, if one wishes to introduce some of 
the rarer shrubs, try Symplocos cratagoides, 
with small white flowers in May and bright 
blue fruits in autumn; Callicarpa purpurea 
with showy purple fruit; Enkianthus, a Japa¬ 
nese shrub valued for its vivid autumn red; 
Evonymus alatus, whose corky bark and bril¬ 
liant autumn foliage are still further enhanced 
by pendent red fruits; Halesia tetraptera, or 
snowdrop tree, whose white bells appear before 
the leaves in spring. 
In May there is a wide range of bloom: 
Exochorda grandiflora, or pearl bush, a choice 
shrub with racemes of white flowers; Fother- 
gilla major, with heads of white resembling 
bottle brushes; Chionanthus virginica, or white 
fringe, with dark glossy leaves and feathery 
white bloom; Viburnum Carlesii, with compact 
fragrant clusters like large Mayflowers; Cor- 
nus Kousa, or Japanese flowering dogwood, 
appearing later than the native variety, with 
petals pointed instead of indented. In sum¬ 
mer there is Potentilla fruticosa, a low shrub 
whose yellow flowers appearing in July re¬ 
semble tiny single roses; golden Hypericum; 
and Kohlreuteria paniculata, or varnish tree, 
whose graceful compound leaves are topped by 
clusters of small yellow flowers lasting for 
nearly a month in midsummer. 
Special Combinations 
It is suprising how many attractive combina¬ 
tions of deciduous plants are seen when one is 
on the lookout for them. In March or April, 
the feathery green of the larch with the blood 
red blossoms of the swamp maple and the snow 
white of the shad-bush; in May purple lilacs 
with a facing of pink flowering almond, yellow 
and orange Azalea mollis with purple wistaria 
and lavender German iris, or the luxuriant 
white mass of the Deutzia Lemoinei as a back¬ 
ground to brilliant Darwin tulips; in June, 
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prohibitive. It must be trimmed at least once 
a week in summer if it is desired to keep it as 
small as 1' high. In larger and more intricate 
formal gardens arches of hawthorn, hornbeam, 
privet or climbing roses may be used. The 
outer hedge may be of lilacs, altheas, SpircEa 
Van Houttei, buckthorn or privet. The stiff¬ 
ness of the formal beds may be agreeably 
broken up by the irregular disposition of choice 
flowering shrubs like Deutzia Lemoinei, Abelia 
floribunda, flowering almond, Spiraea canton- 
iensis, or Harrison’s Yellow rose. Aside from 
forming attractive combinations with the her¬ 
baceous plants, they give a sense of height and 
form to the garden in the winter months when 
the snow has obliterated the design of the beds. 
Choice of Varieties 
After a study of the arrangement of the trees 
and shrubs comes the intelligent choice of va¬ 
rieties. One usually begins by deciding to 
avoid all the hackneyed suburban combina¬ 
tions. This is a wise thing to do, for the bar¬ 
berries, spireas and honeysuckles are much 
over-used. There is, however, a sound basis 
for their use, inasmuch as they flourish where 
the more unusual shrubs languish and die. 
But many other plants are equally easy to grow 
and people should be educated to their use, 
which may be in combination with the proved 
standbys, to give variety and originality of 
effect. The finely cut foliage of the Spirwa 
Thunbergii is lovely in the fall, as it flashes 
pink against the dark bronze-red of a Vi- 
PLANTING LIST FOR 
TREES Price 
Height each 
1. Populus nigra var. fastigiata, 12 
plants, 5' apart. Lombardy poplar.. 10'-12' $1.00 
2. Malus Scheideckeri, 4 plants, as ac¬ 
cents. Flowering crab, pale pink, 
good shapely tree, 4'-5 # SI.00. 6'-7 # 15.00 
SHRUBS 
3. Stephanandra fleruosa, 7 plants, 3' 
apart. Shrub with finely cut dense 
foliage, pinkish twigs, and small 
white flower. 3'-4' .50 
4. Spiraea Van Houttei , 16 plants, 3' 
apart and specimens. Van Houtte’s 
spirea, clipped into square shapes for 
accents on the corners of the beds. . . 3'-4' .35 
5. Philadelphia coronarius, 16 plants, 
4' apart. Mock orange, fragrant 
THE FORMAL GARDEN 
SHRUBS 
Price 
Height 
each 
white flowers, dense form, good 
foliage. 
3*-4' 
.50 
Lonlcera latarica var. rosea, 28 plants, 
3' apart. Pink flowering Japanese 
honeysuckle, particularly good dense 
green foliage covering the bush 
very early. 
3'-4' 
.35 
Liguslrum Ibola, 16 plants, 3' apart. 
Japanese privet, the most hardy 
variety. Trained to form a covered 
arch over the side paths. 
3'-4' 
.35 
8. Berberis Thunbergii, 255 plants, 1' 
apart. Japanese barberry, clipped to 
form a square hedge. Keep shrubs 
from overhanging and killing it, 
per hundred.lH'-2' 15.00 
