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Location of all shrubbery now on grounds, 
its kind and size. 
Size of every other building on the lot. 
Which direction is north. 
Which is the front of the house. 
Location of all walks and drives, their width 
and kind. 
Width of parking' outside the walk. 
Kind of soil, and if ground is level, terraced 
or sloping. 
Style of house, such as bungalow, cottage, 
Colonial, square, etc., and the material of which 
it is built. 
If possible, send along a snapshot or two of 
the property. 
If there are any undesirable views that you 
wish screened, tell us where they are. 
After landscape planting. 
Choosing the Planting 
These suggestions have been supplied by our 
Landscape Department to enable you to choose 
the proper shrubs and plants for the individual 
home. 
By referring to pages 51 to 54 which show 
proper distance apart to set the different kinds, 
you can easily select number and kinds suited 
to any style of home. 
However, exact distances apart for shrubs 
and plants is not necessary or sometimes even 
desirable for the most pleasing effects. No one 
yet has been able to improve on nature’s way 
of grouping trees, shrubs and plants. She makes 
attractive and beautiful groupings by the scat¬ 
tering of a few seeds here and there which 
produce the most delightful results, and we 
humans can only help her by thinning out the 
imperfect and undesirable trees and plants with 
an uneven, irregular planting as the result. Use 
nature’s way as your guide. 
SUNNY AND SHADY LOCATIONS 
Remember in choosing your plantings that 
some plants require sunshine; others prefer 
shade. The sunny varieties should have sun 
for about half of the day, at least, while the 
shaded varieties may not require more than 
two to five hours of direct sunlight. Watch the 
north side of your house during the summer 
months and you will note that the sun will 
shine very close to the foundation for a few 
hours each day as it rises north of east and sets 
north of west. Overhanging eaves that will not 
allow plants to be watered by the rains should 
be taken into consideration or watering must 
be resorted to. 
Residences fronting to all four sides of a 
block give varying exposures as to sunlight. 
The lists for shaded locations should be used 
for homes facing north. Use either the shaded 
or the sunny lists on the east and west fronts 
with sunny ones for the south exposures. 
In all planting's for small or medium sized 
grounds the best landscape practice is group 
planting along lot lines for border effects and 
along the foundation of dwelling, leaving the 
lawn free to give an air space and depth and 
for easier care. 
