Cbe lational iRurserj^man. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXV. HATBORO, PENNA., JANUARY. 1917 
PLANTING OF ORNAMENTALS 
A well selected assortment of evergreens, nicely arranged as a foundalion planting of a house. 
Foundation or base planting of houses and buildings 
is very essential to a finished appearance. It matters 
not how artistic and skillful the architect has been or how 
well the builder did his work, unless there is a little base 
planting there is always an unfinished look. Occasion¬ 
ally, with houses of Spanish design, with large over¬ 
hanging eaves, there is created a position where it is next 
to impossible to get anything to grow and look well close 
to the wall, due to the eaves keeping off the rain and the 
ever present dryness along the foundation. Such a con¬ 
dition calls forth the planter's skill in selection of ma¬ 
terial and arrangement to “tie the house down” as it 
were, and relieve the harciiess. The planting has to he 
located some distance away and more consideration given 
to the individual iilant. The avei'age building, howi'vei-, 
does not present such iirohlcms hut lends itsidf very nicely 
to the arrangement of pleasing groups of plants, although 
it is wise at all times to keep the planting as far away 
from the walls as is consistent witli a good appearance. 
As a rule the plants selected for the front of the house 
