MAKE TREES YOUR FIRST CONSIDERATION 
It’s a good idea to make a plan of your lot 
or acreage. Draw in the house, walks and 
drive, and then spot the trees—the existing 
trees and the new ones you expect to plant. 
Your investment in trees is your most perma- 
nent planting, and you want to be sure they 
are well placed and will still be so for many 
years to come. 
PLAN FOR SHADY RELAXATION 
(a) Let your plan provide for at least one 
shady spot—either toward the rear of the , 
house, shading a porch, or at the rear of 
the garden if you have a dining spot there. 
When planting a tree for shade, remember 
the sun moves north in summer. Locate the 
tree so the shadow falls where you want 
it during the hot summer. 
There are many kinds of trees to choose 
from. American Elm is tall and spreading 
and carries its head high enough to let 
in the evening breezes. Hard Maple will 
give dense shade and a brilliant tall color 
display. If these trees are too large for 
your yard use a Flowering Crab, or the 
lovely Pauls Scarlet Hawthorn, or turn=to 
the fruit tree pages and order a Quintuplet 
Apple or a Sour Cherry which will flower 
in spring and fruit in fall. 
Use trees to frame the house from the 
street or road, or silhouette the house. 
Plant trees in your parkway or along the 
road. Usually trees along the city block 
should all be of the same variety, but if 
this has not been done, choose good shade 
trees of not too large a size such as Chinese 
Elm, Hard Maple or Pin Oak. 
PLANT FOR MAXIMUM COLOR INTEREST 
(B) Use Flowering trees in your shrub border, 
or to break the line of a fence or hedge. 
Let them accent a gateway, or help conceal 
a garage. Many bloom before other trees are 
in leaf, and several have colorful fall fruits. 
Even the smallest yard has room for at least 
one flowering tree, and its bloom will be a 
garden event every year. 
IT’S NOT A HOME UNTIL IT’S PLANTED 
No house really looks like it ‘'belongs’’ 
until the shrubs or evergreens have been 
planted around the foundation. The side of 
the house that faces the public should be 
so planted as to present the most pleasing 
over-all appearance. A smooth stretch of 
lawn, plus evergreens or flowering shrubs 
(or both) grouped around the foundation 
is usually best. Avoid too many contrasting 
colors and forms. Here are a few recommen- 
dations for foundation plantings: 
First: plan your plantingson paper. Second: 
select plants which when mature will still 
be low enough to allow light and air in your 
windows. Third: allow plenty of room for each 
plant to develop naturally to mature size. 
Groupseveral plants around the corners of the 
house even though there are open spaces 
along the wall. Plant the sides and back of 
the house too. You won’t need to cover every 
spot of wall, but relieve the uninteresting 
spaces by a group of shrubs, evergreens, a 
vine or a climbing rose. 
EVERGREENS ARE STRONG DARK ACCENTS 
(0) Evergreens are among the most im- 
portant foundation plants because 
they are good all year. The beautiful low 
growing varieties will remain low under 
windows and make tine plantings near the 
driveway or around the terrace. Taller va- 
rieties are ideal for corner plantings or wher- 
ever you need a tall accent. Foundation 
planting information on Page S0 is applicable 
to evergreens or flowering shrubs. : 
TALL EVERGREENS LEND STATELY GRACE 
(E) Tall growing Evergreens or Specimen 
Evergreens are best used singly as 
ornamental lawn trees on an average size 
lot. On a large place they make effective 
driveway plantings or may be used in a row 
as a property division. Some varieties are 
beautiful as living Christmas trees and dec- 
orated during the holiday season. These, 
however, should not be planted next to the 
house or where it will block a window. 
ENCLOSE YOUR YARD FOR OUTDOOR LIVING 
In making the garden plan, modern family 
life requires that ample space be allowed 
not only for the children, but for your own 
outdoor relaxation, dining, and entertain- 
ing. Real enjoyment of such outdoor living 
requires privacy, and even though this 
season may be a short one for you, you'll 
enjoy it to the utmost if you provide some se- 
cluded area. For this purpose shrubs and 
hedge play an important role. 
SHRUBS AND HEDGE ASSURE PRIVACY 
(F) (6) On a large place a deep border of 
shrubs will be the best way to secure 
privacy. However, in the average back yard 
this can be best achieved by combining 
shrubs with a fence or low wall, or with 
hedge. In any case the shrubs should fill 
out the corners in wide sweeping curves with 
no short, jagged waves. 
Where you can have a little depth, choose 
plants of various heights: the tallest for back- 
ground and graded downward. Set plants 
in an irregular manner, using three or more 
of a variety to give a massed effect of bloom. 
You can plan for bloom from spring to 
fall, displays of fall foliage, and colored 
berries for late fall and winter if you choose 
from Wards wide selection of recommended 
varieties. In mild climates you may enjoy 
the beautiful winter bloom of Camellias and 
other Broadleaf Evergreens. 
Other plants may be brought into the 
narrow or low parts of the shrub border. 
Peonies and Florabunda Roses combine 
effectively with low shrubs. Where the 
yard is narrow, the lawn may come right 
up to the fence in some places, or vines 
such as Clematis or Climbing Rose may be 
used to relieve the bare fence. A few tall , 
perennials such as Delphinium or Hollyhock 
may be planted along the fence for color. 
These are general ideas to think about 
when you make your plan. The important 
thing is to plan carefully, using your own 
ideas which will best suit your own taste 
and give the greatest satisfaction. 
