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House & Garden 
Spring Plant Ordering 
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time varies with the weather conditions 
—the earliness or lateness of our spring, 
and depends on. the location of the 
nursery. As a general rule you can 
ship plants from Massachusetts about 
two weeks later than you can from 
Pennsylvania. The stock should be 
dormant when shipped and stock is 
often retarded in a nursery to make it 
safe for shipping. Stock is sometimes 
dug in the late fall and stored in tan 
bark for the entire winter without in¬ 
jury to the plants. It is sometimes 
several weeks behind the shrubs and 
trees in your gardens but it soon 
catches up. 
Unless they are shipped early it is 
not advisable to ship shrubs and trees 
by freight during the spring for the 
heat of packing is apt to start them 
into leaf during shipment and in case 
there is any delay they are apt to 
die back and retard the growth of the 
plants. In the fall, this is not so; the 
plants are going to sleep for the winter 
and in their dormant state can stand a 
great deal of abuse without injury. 
For spring delivery it pays to send by 
express or better still by truck if the 
order is big enough to warrant it. 
Shrubs and trees, too, can be moved 
about in full leaf if it is d^-ne quickly 
enough. Sometimes they can be balled 
for longer shipment. Digging shrubs 
one afternoon at the nursery, trucking 
it the next day, planting it on the 
third is really ideal. After the material 
has once been delivered at the place, 
however, it can be heeled in and left 
to wait its turn in the making of the 
garden. 
NURSERY SIZES 
You can get ordinary nursery-grown 
shrubs in 4'-5' or S'- 6 ' sizes which will 
give fair effects in a few years’ time. 
Trees, I usually order in anywhere 
from 8'-10' to 12'-14' sizes according 
to kind and variety. A great majority 
of shrubs, if they are well-grown, do 
not need any severe cutting back when 
they are transplanted. Shrubs with 
fibrous roots are the easiest to trans¬ 
plant and do not require any cutting 
back. Other shrubs should be cut back 
in proportion to how much their roots 
have been disturbed in order to coun¬ 
teract the shock they have received. 
It is sometimes better, however, to 
thin a shrub by cutting whole branches 
away to the root than to clip back 
the branches. Most trees need clipping 
back though sometimes thinning out 
will do nicely, following the method 
used in pruning fruit trees. I seldom 
clip back dogwoods while I always 
clip back hawthorns. The latter are 
especially touchy at transplanting. 
Both dogwoods and hawthorns can 
now be bought with balls of earth and 
this is the safest way to buy them. 
We are getting so used to having 
evergreens and all kinds of choice 
plant material balled that we wonder 
what happened before. It has revo¬ 
lutionized the whole art of transplant¬ 
ing for it can be done at unusual 
times. It has made possible, too, the 
big tree moving which seems quite too 
marvelous at times. 
There are some nurseries who make 
a specialty of selling large and well 
developed shrubs. It is often advis¬ 
able to buy these for special effects or 
for quick effects. I always feel it 
particularly worth-while to get large 
lilacs, and you can often get nicely 
shaped viburnums of many varieties, 
especially nice cornels of interesting 
shapes, unusual sizes of yews, extra 
specimens of azaleas which will add 
distinction to a newly made garden. 
It hardly seems worth-while, though, 
to pay extra prices for special sizes of 
such plants as forsythias because they 
grow very fast. It hardly seems worth¬ 
while to buy big shrubs of many of 
the more or less gardenesque shrubs 
that require vigorous pruning to keep 
them shaDelv and voung in appear¬ 
ance. 
NATIVE MATERIAL AND PERENNIALS 
Certain native material like Viburnum 
dentatum and Cornus paniculata, 
huckleberry and spicebush, and many 
of the native azaleas can be obtained 
in what is called collected stock right 
from its native habitat. These shrubs 
are bigger and sturdier than nursery 
stock and are good for big areas. They 
are often more picturesque in outline 
than nursery stock and for that reason 
interesting for special garden purposes. 
For all woodland planting, too, col¬ 
lected stock is cheaper and more in 
character. Collected laurels and native 
rhododendrons can be obtained by the 
car or truck load at reasonable prices. 
For gardens and for particularly nice 
situations like the planting against the 
house, I like to get nursery grown lau¬ 
rels and rhododendron because they 
are apt to be fuller plants of regular 
shapes. 
Perennials, I like to get as near the 
place where they are to be planted as 
possible, though the majority of per¬ 
ennials ship very well by express, if 
the nursery is at all careful in packing. 
It is a real treat to see a crate of well- 
packed plants. Each individual root 
is wrapped in paper, carefully packed 
in rows snugly together, each variety 
is separated from the next by an extra 
layer of paper; and sometimes a few 
of the early things, like Phlox divari- 
cata, are already beginning to bloom. 
I have found larkspurs, hollyhocks, 
anemone japonica, hybrid columbines 
among those plants that do not like 
shipping. Hollyhocks I have found es¬ 
pecially difficult to move because they 
are so liable to rot. Some plants like 
the anemones will lose their first tops 
very often but they will recover and 
make very sturdy plants with a little 
care. I have never had luck with 
spring shipping of foxgloves and I 
have given up using Canterbury bells 
and other campanulas because of the 
losses I have sustained in shipping 
them—unless they are grown right on 
the place. It is always gratifying to 
have seedling Hollyhocks on hand, and 
to find that the gardener’s forethought 
has provided larkspurs and sweet 
williams, columbines and lupines and 
such material for a possible new garden. 
The general run of perennials can be 
gotten at almost any big nursery but 
it is all the fine distinctions in varie¬ 
ties, all the choice and new plants, the 
lilies, that are the making of the garden 
and these must be shopped for—now 
in Vermont, again in Mass, again in 
Pennsylvania. 
HOW TO ORDER 
When you send your order, attach 
a legend to it. 
1— Give the date when you wish 
the order sent. It is wise to give the 
nursery a bit of leaway in that, for 
spring is a busy time in a nursery. 
Unless there is a special reason against 
it, have the order sent early and heel 
it in until the planting can be done. 
The plants might as well make their 
growth right on your place instead of 
waiting around at the nursery. 
2 — Specify the method in which 
you want your older sent—otherwise 
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