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Title: American gardening
Identifier: americangardeni131892newy (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Gardening; Horticulture
Publisher: New York : Rural Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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646 TASTE AND TACT IN ARRANGING ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. Other trees for the vicinity of the windmill might be the American elm, common horse-chestnut, the European white birch and the tooth-leaved weeping poplar. The small clump of shrubs directly in the rear of the wind- mill might consist of the flowering currants in assort- ment. The two large clumps of shrubbery on each side of the walk between plats E and F, where it joins the front drive, might be planted, the one to the east with red- twigged dogwood, tamarisk, I'cbur- num rug-OS urn, golden elder, caly- canthus, Josika's lilac, cut-leaved elder and waxberries ; the one oppo- site with ailantus, Pauloiunia im- pcrialis, golden catalpa, bladder- senna, aralias (including the Japa- nese), purple-leaved filberts, etc. The large mass near the barn in plat F might be appropriately planted with strong-growing trees and shrubs, in order to screen the stable from the residence. For this place we would include the Carolina poplar, golden poplar, golden catalpa, pur- ple-leaved birch, ash-leaved spiraea, royal willow and Venetian sumach. A group at the windmill crossing might consist of oleasters, white fringe and clethras. The various groups in plats H and I, directly back of the house, we would plant with spiraeas in large variety, mock-orange, Japan qui ornamental elders, etc., devoting a mass to each kind of shrub. A few elms or other forest trees might also be located in this division. The group between the house and the greenhouse plant with oleasters, mock-oranges, Japan maples and hardy azaleas ; the beds in the vicin- ity of the greenhouse with hardy perennials, including a large mass of peonies and tender summer flowers. Flowering vines in variety can be planted about the front and side veranda-pillars. If the reader sug- gests that shrubbery has been used too freely for the front yard, we an- swer that this was done keeping in mind the fact that the rear of the place is thickly occupied with giant forest trees, needing the contrast so provided. We Americans are fortunate in having so many hand- some hardy native trees and shrubs for ornamental planting about our homes and public parks. Our forests are all great nurseries, from which we may select the finest stock to be found anywhere in the world, with no fear of its proving inadaptable to our climate, or of the nurseryman's harrowing bill. Nay, more ; if we will but have eyes to see, the great mother-gardener everywhere gives us lessons in practical planting. She shows us what soils and situations her beautiful nurslings like best; she groups them, scatters them, grows them as specimens here and there ; shows us a multitude of fairy-like effects
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HIGHWAY 4.—Improvements Suggested for Fig. 3. in the light, mingled foliage of flower-fringed borders ; or awes us with the sombre grandeur of her wide-spread masses of giant forest trees. We catch our finest bits of inspiration in landscape art from the open plan-book of forests and meadows, and the more closely we study them the wider and nobler will be the sweep of horticulture.

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