Qbe lational IRurser^man. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXV. HATBORO, PENNA.. JUNE. 1917 No. 6 
Entrance Planting 
I N our last issue we treated on the })laiitiug of an en¬ 
trance to a building’. The present illustration is a 
simple and dignified planting of a driveway entrance, 
Siin])lieity is always safe and sane and there could be 
nothing more simple than the planting as shown in our 
illustration and nothing more appropriate and pleasing. 
It consists of an attractive and uncommon tree, Quer- 
jlisting and rearrangement, and wIkmi tlnw grow large, 
without skilled attention, usually consist of a numhei 
of spoiled plants and an unsightly condition at the most 
important point of the grounds. 
One can picture the entrance shown in the illustration 
in the next fifty years, with the Oak grown to majestic 
proportions overarching the gateway, still heautiful and 
An efferUve yet simple entrance planting consisting of a 
cus irnbricaria, or Laurel-Leaved Oak and vines on the 
gate piers. How much superior to a mixed planting of 
shrubbery, evergreens or clusters of trees, so often seen. 
Oroups of plants, bowever attractively arranged, seldom 
keep their beauty for many years without constant ad- 
single tree, Qaercas imltricaria, and vines on the piers 
the surroundings easily kept neat and clean. 
The oidy drawback is the time it takes to get a good 
kind of tree well established. The owiu'r of the jirop- 
erty is usually too impatient and wants an imim'diate 
effect, not realizing that invariably what is gained in 
