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The com- 
The foundation planting is the most important landscape problem of the home-owner. 
pleted appearance of a house requires an appropriate foundation planting which should be put in as soon 
as the building is finished. Its purpose is architectural—to connect house walls with lawn and topogra- 
phy. A new home without an attractive planting is as incomplete as an interior without drapes or light 
nxtures. 
The foundation planting is also the face your home turns to the world and whether this face is 
bright and welcoming, or dreary and cheerless, depends upon how you make your plantings. The planting 
should be designed to hide unsightly »spots.and to frame and enhance the more attractive ones, and should 
be designed for year-’round interest and beauty. Here, especially, the evergreens are truly indispensable, 
creating effects of stability, dignity and elegance possible with no other group of plants. 
The junipers: “scops,” including the named varieties, sabina and its varieties Tamarix and 
Vonehron, pfitzeriana, both in its natural habit and staked upright, and the dwarf Mugho pine are the 
evergreens best suited to foundation plantings. From this group a selection can be made to fill any 
possible requirements of size, shape or color. (You will of course, NEVER plant any spruce or other 
species of pine in your foundation planting, regardless of how cute they may look in the nursery). 
An all-evergreen planting as pictured is suitable for large places but too formal for most smaller 
homes, where a more attractive planting can often be had by using fewer evergreens together with 
dwarf deciduous shrubs, perhaps a flowering vine or two, polyantha roses and bulbs. 
Juniperus sabina—Savin juniper 
Grows a little taller than the Pfitzer juniper, with 
gracefully arching fan shaped branches, as contrasted with 
Pfitzer’s irregular, plumy habit. Foliage thickly tufted, 
moss-green summer color changes to brownish-green in win- 
ter. Older specimens nearly always carry heavy “crops of 
blue and silver berries. Native of the mountains of central 
Europe to western Asia and very hardy and: dependable 
everywhere. ; 
"18 to 24 ins. $5.00. 
2% to 8 ft. $8.50 
3% to, 4 ft. $12.00 
5 to 6 ft. $20.00 
15 to 18 ins.. $4.00. . 
2 to 2% ft. $6.75. 
3 to 8% ft. $10.25, 
“Ato 5 ft. $15.00. 
J. sabina Vonehron 
Rapid-growing. clon of the Savin juniper—in fact, dur- 
ing the three years we have grown it, almost too fast. We 
believe it is best sheared globe shape and used in the same 
manner as J. scopulorum Globe, where it offers considerable 
contrast in the way of foliage color. This season we can 
offer a very few finished specimens, sheared globe. 
2% to Bft. $10.00. “: 3 to 3%.ft. $11.50 
J. sabina Tamarix 
The, “tammie” is a geographical form of J. sabina from 
_ the Caucausus mountains; an extremely compact and sym- 
metrical low-growing shrub rarely.as tall. as 3 feet but 
spreading to 10 to 12 feet with lacy foliage suggesting the 
delicacy of the deciduous tamarix. Its matchless, never- 
changing, blue-green color is unique and it’s an ideal plant 
for the foreground, giving; the finest sort of finish to ever- 
green groups or. for foundation planting where space is 
limited. It appears to best advantage flanking masonry 
tie steps, cascading down the slopes of garden terraces. 
15 to 18 ins. $4.50. 
2 to 2% ft: $7.50. 
18 to 24 ins. $5.75 
3 tol ft. $10.00 
Pinus mughus—Mugho Pine 
The only truly dwarf pine, rarely exceeding 10 feet in 
height and about the same width; once-a-year pruning will 
keep it within 3 or 4 feet. Compact, densely branching 
habit with good, deep green summer color that fades lighter 
during’ our usual sunny winters. As the new buds start in 
the spring the tree appears to be decorated with hundreds 
of tiny candles, Native of the Swiss Alps and very hardy. 
"15 to 18 ins. $5.00. 18 to 24 ing. $6.50 
2-to 2% ft. $9.00 
