Suggestions for beautifying home, village and roadway . se hardy shrubs, vines, trees and flowering plants against bare wallsto hide bad views, to frame in turf areas, and at the base of buildings tomerge hard angles into flowing lines of landscape. Use tender plants and annuals in flower-garden, flower-boxes, or bedsat edge, not in center, of lawn. Use few large trees in small places. Consider ultimate, not present, size of all plants in planning. Use a few reliable varieties in large quantities at first, adding varietylater. The common native plants about you are reliable and often quite asb
Suggestions for beautifying home, village and roadway . se hardy shrubs, vines, trees and flowering plants against bare wallsto hide bad views, to frame in turf areas, and at the base of buildings tomerge hard angles into flowing lines of landscape. Use tender plants and annuals in flower-garden, flower-boxes, or bedsat edge, not in center, of lawn. Use few large trees in small places. Consider ultimate, not present, size of all plants in planning. Use a few reliable varieties in large quantities at first, adding varietylater. The common native plants about you are reliable and often quite asbeautiful as the best exotics. Exotics in common cultivation for yearsare reliable. You can buy exotics and garden varieties and some natives from localdealers. You can collect most natives successfully if large masses ofearth are retained on roots at transplanting. The common plants on pages ii and 12 are suggested as types forvarious conditions in different parts of the country. [1] 1. If there are streets in your town as bare and unattractiveas this. 2. They need only towering trunks and graceful stems oftrees in winter,suggestionsforbe00mann
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