PACHYSANDRA TERMINALIS 
The Green Rug for the Outdoor 
Living-Room 
“Use Pachysandra” has become a popular saying and 
thought with many landscape architects and plantsmen 
when confronted with the problem of planting situations 
such as follows: 
Bare areas under dense shade. 
Bare ground under evergreen plantings. 
Bare ground under shrub plantings. 
Bare areas along shady driveways. 
Bare areas in courtyards. 
Bare areas in city yards. 
Bare areas at entrance gateways. 
It stands out, not as a substitute for some other plant, 
but as the best and only one to use for these situations. 
Pachysandra recommends itself— evergreen winter 
and summer; hardy under all conditions; even height 
of 6 inches. 
Distinctly benefits shade trees, evergreen and shrub 
plantings, not alone in providing the natural mulch or 
forest condition of top-soil so important to them, but also 
in bringing out and adding an effect of completeness. 
The finished appearance that Pachysandra gives to 
plantings is unquestioned. It will carry out natural 
lines, face down and relieve foundation plantings, 
rhododendron borders, azalea plantings, extend the 
planted rock-garden from sun to shade in a naturalistic 
manner, enhance woodland gardens, combine with and 
protect plantings of spring bulbs. There are few plants 
as satisfactory as Pachysandra, and none that surpass it. 
Pachysandra Is Beneficial to Aged 
and Undernourished Trees 
For this reason alone it deserves highest recognition. 
Nationally known tree surgeon companies, who are 
accomplishing invaluable service in preserving the 
large and old trees of the country, recognize Pachy- 
sandra as the best means of recreating the natural 
forest conditions lacking on well-kept lawns or bare 
grounds from which the leaves are blown or carefully 
raked away. They have written us that they instruct 
their men in its use and strongly recommend it because 
it protects the roots of large trees from the drying effect 
of sun and wind, prevents surface transpiration, and 
collects the fallen leaves, enabling the tidy application 
of humus and fertilizer. The cool, green foliage, 6 inches 
high, hides the leaves or humus, keeps the soil cool, 
while the stoloniferous root-system keeps the soil friable 
and permits falling moisture to easily penetrate to the 
tree roots. 
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