Skilled Use of Low-Growing Plants in Good Scale With 
Modern Cape Cod Home 
“Best “Plants for Special Uses 
APPROPRIATE PLANT SELECTIONS FOR 
GOOD HOME LANDSCAPING 
Seldom do we stop to appreciate how wide is the range and 
how diversified the characteristics of the thousands of plant 
species and varieties which thrive in our climate. In size and 
form, in leaf and flower and fruit, of every shape and color and 
season, the plant world offers us wide choice of the plant per- 
sonalities that shall people our gardens and our grounds. 
But plants, like people, have likes and dislikes as to where 
they want to be, and where and when they thrive most pleas- 
antly. Nature controls unerringly the typical character of each. 
Ours is the choice where to put them, and upon the wisdom of 
our choosing (and the care we give them) depends the fullest 
development of each, amd the success and satisfaction we 
achieve. 
Knowledge of plants, and long experience in their best uses, 
supports the following suggestions, by no means complete, for 
plants we recommend for these special uses. 
LOW-GROWING PLANTS FOR HOUSE 
FOUNDATIONS AND ATTRACTIVE 
FACING FOR TALLER PLANTS 
Too many people still plant Pines and Spruces, and tall- 
growing Arborvitaes and Retinosporas around the base of the 
house. They do look ‘cute’? when they’re young, but they 
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