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Another specialty is the 
jVew Gverbl(Joining J^ugosa CRpse 
Everblooming Red Rugosa 
Shown in natural color in our 
catalog. For mass and hedge 
plantings—(not for the rose gar¬ 
den). 
Clusters of beautiful bright red 
flowers resembling bunches of red 
carnations. Very double with 
petal edges serrated and with the 
beautiful deep green, healthy 
foliage characteristic of the Rugo¬ 
sa Rose. Blooms continually from 
early Summer until frost. 
Everblooming 
Hybrid Tea Roses 
We have a splendid collection for 
spring planting. Our list includes 
many superb new varieties, such 
as Los Angeles, Gorgeous, Madam 
Butterfly, Lolita Armour, Golden 
Ophelia, Crusader, etc. 
These arc only a few of our special - 
ties. Many others are illustrated in 
full color in our Free Catalogue for 
1923 . Send for your copy today 
and find out about our splendid 
assortment of Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Berry Plants, 
etc. 
Handsome Shrubs— 
Real Nut Producers 
Here is a beautiful shrub which yields 
such an abundant supply of large nuts 
that it not only fills an important place 
in ornamental plantings and in nut bor¬ 
ders for walks and drives, but is a suc¬ 
cess commercially. 
F OR ten years we have specialized in 
propagating these plants so that you 
can grow this Great Nut Delicacy, Big 
Meaty Filberts (Hazel Nuts) on your 
own grounds. 
Plants bear the second or third year 
after planting and at the tenth year 
yield 20 to 25 pounds per bush. 
Th rive in any moderately rich, well- 
drained soil, with very little cultivation 
and succeed over a wide range of terri¬ 
tory and latitude. Are HARDY and 
ADAPTED TO THE MORE 
NORTHERN STATES. 
House & Garden 
The dark, waxy green of broad-leaved evergreens and conifers, 
suitable for the South, is extremely effective against the flat 
white clapboards of this Georgia house 
SOUTH ERN FOUNDATION PLANTINGS 
JULIA LESTER DILLON 
T HE' problem of making a foun¬ 
dation planting individual and an 
integral part of the house, as well as an 
appropriate mat for the picture of the 
house framed by the garden and lawn, 
deserves much more consideration than 
it usually receives. The character of 
the planting must be decided by the 
architecture of the building, by the 
material used in its construction, by 
the surrounding growth of trees or 
shrubs, by the nature of the slopes or 
levels on which the house is set and 
by the character of the soil and expos¬ 
ure. All these things must be care¬ 
fully studied and definitely made a part 
of the planting plan if the foundation 
planting problems are to be satis¬ 
factorily solved—in the South or any¬ 
where else. 
One Biota aurea nana, conspicua, or 
pyramidalis , a half dozen abelias, a few 
Ligustrums nepalense or L. lucidum with 
perhaps a spirea or two thrown in for 
good measure is the average planting 
around Southern homes. No individual 
thought, no expression of personality, 
just something to hide the line where 
the house joins the ground. In city after 
city we see the same thing. House after 
house is planted after the same general 
pattern and usually the work of the 
nearest nurseryman. The whole city as 
it passes by sees the planting around 
your doors, while only a few chosen 
friends admire the furniture in your liv¬ 
ing room. Why not express good taste 
and individuality on the outside as well 
as indoors? 
Above is a house set in the pines, 
sheathed in clapboards, painted white, 
with dark green shutters. What a beauti¬ 
ful choice it is after all to select the rich 
deep greens of cypresses and fragrant 
junipers to harmonize with the color of 
the pine needles, to put boxwoods in the 
window boxes and to soften the formal 
groups with white-blossoming snow gar¬ 
land spireas, and to extend the masses 
of brown-stemmed deciduous shrubs un¬ 
til they meet the undergrowth of the 
woodlands. The whole planting blends 
into the surrounding and makes a most 
attractive picture. 
Juniperus Virginiana to give height at 
the entrance and corners, with Juniperus 
Sinensis densifloro for accent, Ligustrum 
Japonicum to make a screen for the 
living porch, and the evergreens tied to¬ 
gether with masses of abelias, spireas, 
and hydrangeas make a splendid foun¬ 
dation planting for a house of this type 
in such a situation. 
A white stucco house in Georgia, 
many feet below the level of the street, 
has white and pink Cherokee roses on 
the columns of the portico, with masses 
of Azalea indica and A. Hinodegiri, and 
Nandina domestica around the whole of 
the house itself. The Nandina is won¬ 
derful all winter with its dainty leaves 
and clusters of scarlet berries. All of 
the plantings are evergreen and the 
whole is a satisfying picture at every 
season. 
Another Georgia house of cream stuc¬ 
co, that is built on a hilltop, uses Spirea 
Thunbergii, with Pittosporum tobua, to 
frame its foundation lines, while inter¬ 
mingled with these two are numbers of 
scarlet baby rambler roses, Eona Tesch- 
endorff, giving the effect of a basket of 
red roses that has been thrown around 
the house and down the hillside. The 
roses bloom nine months and the effect is 
indescribably lovely. Phyllostachys aurca 
in thicket growth screens the porte 
cochere and beautifies the east side of 
this home. 
The house built on severely classic 
lines, as is the case with many delightful 
Southern homes, calls for the formal 
conifers, the use of jars and the straight 
lines of boxwood hedges. In one typi¬ 
cal example the tiled terrace that connects 
the entrance portal with the living porch 
on one side and the sun parlor on the 
other extends across the whole front of 
the house. Eighteen inches below this ter¬ 
race is another one of grass around two 
sides of the house. The foundation 
planting of the tiled terrace is English 
Ivy, Hedera helix, and this completely 
covers the brick and stone. Buttresses 
hold the corners and jars planted with 
pyramidal boxwoods define them. On 
the edge of the grass terrace is a formal 
boxwood hedge, cut square, and not 
more than one foot high. 
The typical Southern colonial house 
with massive columns is the hardest of 
all to plant. Cypresses, cupressus sem- 
pervirens pyramidalis and C. Royalii, or 
Biota orientalis pyramidali with Retin- 
ispora squarrosa Veitcliii or R. 
pisifera plumosa, carry the eyes and 
lines up and up against the columns. 
Houses of this character call for large 
grounds and on such lawns Himalayan 
cedars, Cedrus Deodara, and, for those 
who like them, Magnolia grandifloras, 
give the necessary height and frame the 
buildings beautifully. 
Endless combinations for foundation 
plantings in the South can be made and 
most of them can be very pleasing. 
