Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . fia and P. Eugenei^is much in demand for those ephemeral uses of which, in modern civilisa-tion, there are so many. Individual trees of the cricket-bat willow sellreadily enough, but of the others plantations must be fairly extensive tobe remunerative. The expenses connected with felling, cutting up andhauling are proportionately so much more in the case of odd trees thattimber dealers will not give paying prices for them. The following may be recommended for boggy ground:— » G 98 TREES AND SHRUBS EOR WET PLACES Alnus gluiinosii ;ind viirs. „ inoa
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . fia and P. Eugenei^is much in demand for those ephemeral uses of which, in modern civilisa-tion, there are so many. Individual trees of the cricket-bat willow sellreadily enough, but of the others plantations must be fairly extensive tobe remunerative. The expenses connected with felling, cutting up andhauling are proportionately so much more in the case of odd trees thattimber dealers will not give paying prices for them. The following may be recommended for boggy ground:— » G 98 TREES AND SHRUBS EOR WET PLACES Alnus gluiinosii ;ind viirs. „ inoaiiii. „ nitida. ,, serruluta and nana,llippophae macrocarpus. ,, palustris. Picea alba. ,, canescens.,, Eusrenei. Poimlus seroLina. ,, Iremula and alba and var. ,, babylonica. ,, Caprea. ,, daphnoides. ,, fragilis. ,, incana. ,, purpurea. ,, Salamoni. ,, triandra. ,, viminalis. ,, viridis and z o < CO CHAPTER XXV Shrubs for Dry Positions and Poor Soils. A frequent problem in gardens is the furnishing of arid slopes and poorsoils with an ornamental shrubby growth. Such places are, of course, ill-adapted to the cultivation of the majority of those trees and shrubs onwhich the ornamentation of our gardens chiefly depends. There is,nevertheless, a considerable number of shrubs which not only thrive inthese dry places, but even succeed better there than in ordinary soils andpositions. Many of them are of great beauty in flower, and it is alwaysmore economical and often much more satisfactory to rely on them thanit is to attempt the cultivation of more exacting plants, by supplying goodsoil and giving extra attention in watering, mulching, etc. In preparing pieces of ground of this character, it is essential toremember that although the plants mentioned below withstand and evenenjoy heat and drought when fully established, they n
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