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The foundation planting is the most important landscape problem of the home-owner. The com- 
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 
topography. A new home without an attractive planting is as incomplete as an interior without drapes 
or light fixtures. 
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 re- 
quirements 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. 

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. 
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a picture of year-’round beauty. and plant them yourself. 
