‘ Best of all, you save many dollars and increase your 
YOUR HOME WITH GLORIOUS Color and Fragrance 
OF BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS All Spring, Summer and Fall! Page 37 
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Beautifying Your Home Through Landscaping 
Add Color, 
Beauty, 
Fragrance to 
Your Home with 
Stark Hardy 
Ornamentals. 
Landscaping your home. . . doing the planting 
and planning yourself... is both easy and relaxing. 
home enjoyment as well as increase the value of 
your home up to $1,000 or more. Here is the 
proved, easy way to make your home a showplace 
that everyone in town will admire: 
1. Frame the House with shade trees on each side. 
This assures cooling shade and a gentle, natural 
background for your home grounds. Complete the 
“frame”? with attractive shrubs around the house 
foundation so that the building will blend into its 
surroundings. 
2. Keep Lawns Open. A carpet of velvety grass 
in front and the rear of the home is a basic ‘‘must”’. 
Shrub borders around the grass plots, with en- 
trance or corner plantings help create the desired 
“picture’”’ effect. This arrangement focuses atten- 
tion on the home itself and makes the whole yard 
look larger. Do not plant individual shrubs or 
clumps of shrubs in the open lawn centers. 
3. The Three Basic Parts of your Home Grounds: 
a. The publicarea... the front lawn adjacent to 
the street or road. 
b. The private area... the Outdoor Living Room 
to the rear of the house, granting privacy and an 
attractive recreation space for the whole family. .!. 
a place for joyous and safe play for the children. 
ce. Garden Area—Flowers and Fruits can be sep- 
arate from or actually a part of the rose garden 
or flower border. The planting sketches shown 
on these pages offer fundamental suggestions 
for planting your home... but the actual land- 
scaping arrangement you adopt can be changed 
to conform to your particular needs. 
4. Entrance Plantings. Lower growing shrubs 
are advisable for your Entrance Plantings. Lower 
growing shrubs will not obstruct the view and yet 
will provide the color you desire. If desired, plant 
one center shrub of medium size on each side of the 
entrance, with dwarf shrubs around each larger 
shrub. This will assure a graceful, natural accent. 
5. Screen or Background Plantings. Perhaps 
you have an unsightly view or background you wish 
to screen. Use shade trees in the background with 
either dwarf trees or high shrubs in front, using 
lower shrub borders for “‘facers”. This plan gives a 
graduated effect which gives a colorful screen plant- 
ing that brings your family beauty and privacy. 
You can easily select the right shrub for the right place by 
drawing a rough sketch and indicating where each Shrub you 
order will be planted. See Page 38 for details. 
STARK BRO’S NEW ORNAMENTAL LANDSCAPING KEY 
You can easily select suitable Shrubs and Trees and their proper arrangement by following keyed plan on these 
pages and by using keyed list of plant material on Page 38. 
Note: Most Shrubs are adapted to several different purposes. Therefore they will carry 2 Key Letters. For 
instance, Japanese Barberry is keyed ‘‘A”’ and “‘B”’. 
WHERE TO PLANT f HOW FAR APART TO PLANT 
KEY LETTERS below and on sketches of Shrubs (Distance from Center to Center of Plants) G 
and Trees indicate sizes and uses in House Foundation A—1%4 to 214 feet Between Shrubs. 
Pl : Shrub G Shrub Bord t B—2 to 3 feet Between Shrubs. 
antings, RL OE me OTGeES CCCs C—3 to 4 feet Between Shrubs. 
A.—Low-Growing or Dwarf Shrubs—for the entrances or to be D—4 to 5 feet Between Shrubs. 
planted in front of taller shrubs as “‘facers’’. E—6 to 8 feet Between Shrubs and Dwarf Trees. 
B.— Medium Height Shrubs of Spreading Growth—for under F—10 to 20 feet Between Trees. F 
windows or as “fillers”? in shrub groups, shrub borders and in G—30 to 45 feet Between Shade Trees. 
front of tall shrubs. ‘ A : NOTE: When quickest effects are desired for your planting, 
C.—Medium Height Shrubs of Upright Growth—for either side use closest planting distance recommended for each group above. 
of doorways or in shrub borders. For example, plant Dwarf Shrubs (Key A) 1} ft. apart instead of 
D.—Upright or ‘‘Accent’’ Shrubs for corners of buildings, back 21 ft. apart. 
part of shrub borders or as specimens. 
E.—Tall Growing Shrubs and Dwarf Fruit Trees—for back of 
shrub borders and as single specimens. 
F.—Fruit Trees and Flowering Trees—for specimen plantings or 
as a background for borders. 
G.—Large Shade Trees—for shade, as a “frame” for the 
house and for street plantings. 
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Low-Growing or Medium Height Medium Height Larger, Upright Tall Shrubs and Fruit Trees and Large Shade 
“Dwarf” Shrubs Spreading Shrubs Upright Shrubs Shrubs Dwarf Fruit Trees Flowering Trees Trees 
“A”? 
