The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

Table of Contents

The Complete

GARDEN 5285 PLATE I. The scarlet thorns planted on both sides of the wall on either side of the gate make an excellent frame for this…

Country Life Press, Garden City, N.y

2 pages

Lists for Reference

4 pages

List of Illustrations

2 pages

Introduction

3 pages

Planting and Seeding Seasons

3 pages

Upper Ontario

105 LAWNS 91 EVERGREENS 81 PAINESVILLE, 87 DECIDUOUS OHIO 63 LAWNS 90 EVERGREENS 9 LONG ISLAND 76 DECIDUOUS 78 LAWNS 97 EVERGREENS 10…

Coastal Plain

39 LAWNS 101 EVERGREENS 15 CINCINNATI 100 DECIDUOUS 82 LAWNS 149 EVERGREENS 16 SAN FRANCISCO 66 DECIDUOUS 64 LAWNS 158 EVERGREENS VIRGINIA…

Compiled by A.d.taylor, 1900Euclid Aye. Cleveland

PLATE III. A chart to aid in determining the most favourable period for transplanting, and for seeding of lawns in various sections of the…

Deciduous Planting Dates

The following tabulation shows the average dates for the beginning and the ending of normal planting seasons for deciduous plants in…

Locality as Typical of Surrounding Territory

3 pages

Working Days

34 April 20 June I 36 Sept. 20 Nov. 10 43 Buffalo, New York • • . • • • April 10 May 20 34 Oct. 20 Nov. 20 27 Minneapolis, Minnesota •…

Spring Average Close

April 15 May 30 Feb. 15 Oct. 20 Nov. 20 28 June I April 1 May I 52 Oct. I Nov. 30 48 May 15 Painesville, Ohio March 15 May 15 48 Oct. 10…

Lawn Seeding Dates

A tabulation showing the beginning and ending dates during normal spring and fall seasons for seeding of lawns. Abnormal weather conditions…

The Complete Garden

April 25 April 10 May 15 May I Aug. 15 Oct. I June I Boston, Massachusetts April 10 May 30 43 Aug. 15 Oct. I 39 Toronto and Upper Ontario…

Evergreen Planting Dates

The planting season for evergreens begins later in the spring and earlier in the fall than the corresponding seasons for deciduous plants…

Spring Average

June I April 20 June I May I April 25 June I Sept. 15 Nov. 15 53 Toronto and Upper Ontario • April 15 June 15 52 Sept. I Nov. I 54…

Pruning

5 pages

Planting and Transplanting

9 pages

Typical Plants

2 pages

Surface of Ground

L of bulbs should be planted. Many disappointing flower effects are the result of violating these rules with PLATE IX. It is important to…

Lawns

THE first part of this chapter treats of conditions in the North and the second part of the chapter treats of conditions in the South.

Lawns for the North

4 pages

Bulb Culture

4 pages

CHAPTER VII

2 pages

Poison Baits

For cutworms I lb. Paris green mixed with IO lb. bran. For cutworms I lb. white arsenic and I lb. of sugar or molasses in 6 lbs. of bran…

Contact Insecticides

For plant lice use one lb. soap to 5 to 8 gallons water. For aphids and larvæ use nicotine sulphate at strength given on package or 1 lb…

Spraying Don'ts

9 pages

Kavacha & Son

2 pages

Winter Protection and Mulching

4 pages

Evergreens

The variation in adaptation of evergreens has come to be a muchdebated question among horticulturists and landscape architects who are…

List of Evergreens

2 pages

Street and Avenue Planting

2 pages

Plants for Use in Congested City Districts

THE effect of dust, smoke, and gas fumes upon vegetation is well known and yet no considerable amount of study has been given to this…

Plants for Hedges

2 pages

List of Plants for Hedges

A. BARRIERS. This group consists of types of plants which are compact in their habit of growth and some of which are thorny. They are…

Plants for Border Planting

3 pages

Accent and Specimen Trees and Shrubs

2 pages

A. Trees

Abies (in variety) Fir Acer palmatum (in variety) Japanese Maple Acer platanoides schwedleri Schwedler's Purple Maple Aesculus (in variety)…

B. Shrubs

Aesculus parviflora Dwarf Horse-chestnut Azalea (in variety) Azalea Caragana arborescens Siberian Pea Shrub Chaenomeles japonica Japanese…

Japanese Gardens, and in Wall Crevices

A FULLY developed estate to-day is not complete without an interesting rock garden, not because it gives an interesting physical variety to…

Rock and Japanese Gardens, Wall Crevices

2 pages

In Japanese Gardens, and in Wall Crevices

A. EVERGREENS. In every garden development of this kind, a touch of evergreen foliage, the texture of which is peculiar to evergreen…

Plants for Heavy Formal Effects

6 pages

Plants for Natural, Informal Effects

AS CONTRASTED with plants adapted to heavy or compact formal effects the plants of this group have a more open, looser habit of growth…

Curving Roadways and at Entrances

PLANTS which are selected for use in this group must have a normally low-growing habit. In general, their maximum height should approximate…

Low-Growing Plants

an expert gardener can be kept within definite bounds. Where open views are essential and expert care is lacking, the plants indicated in…

Trees and Shrubs for Different Flowering

EFFECTS PERHAPS the most important use of plants is for the effect of the flowers. At least ninety per cent. of those who develop landscape…

Trees and Shrubs for Flowering Effects

4 pages

Their Fruit

THE charm of many landscape plantings during fall and early winter months is due almost entirely to the interesting effects produced by the…

Plants for Fruit Characteristics

3 pages

Plants Used for Attracting Birds

It is often advisable, in the making of landscape plantings, to use trees and shrubs which possess ornamental values from a landscape…

Able in Landscape Planting

Aesculus hippocastanum Common Horse-chestnut Ailanthus glandulosa Tree of Heaven Catalpa (in variety) Indian Bean Celtis occidentalis…

Trees and Shrubs Bearing Coloured Twigs

THE trees and shrubs in the following list are those whose twigs are coloured sufficiently to make them of value from a landscape…

Coloured Twigs

months. In the great majority of plants the new twigs show an interesting colour for perhaps part of the year, usually during the early…

Colouration of the Leaves

ONE of the most charming features of our northern landscapes, especially through the northeastern United States where such a great variety…

Plants for Autumn Colouration

Acer ginnala (scarlet) Siberian Maple Acer negundo (yellow) Box Elder Acer rubrum (scarlet) Red Maple Acer saccharum (red) Sugar Maple…

Screen Effects

IT OFTEN becomes necessary to find some fast-growing type of tree or shrub to produce an immediate screen. This is especially true in the…

Fast-Growing Types for Screen Effects

which are more or less permanent in their character of growth. The types contained in this last group establish themselves much more…

Ing Screen Effects

These groups contain the very fastest growing and most temporary types of trees and shrubs, and the more rapid-growing types of trees and…

Plants Adapted to Various Types of Soil

CONDITIONS A VERY important factor in determining the sorts of plants adapted to any specific location is the soil type. By soil type is…

Various Types of Soil Conditions

5 pages

Plants for Exposed Lake Front and River

CONDITIONS WE HAVE often noticed plantations along exposed lake fronts and river fronts where normal development seems to have been greatly…

Exposed Lake Front and River

Cornus alba sibirica Siberian Dogwood Eleagnus argentea Silver Berry Myrica cerifera Bayberry Philadelphus coronarius Common Mock Orange…

Trees and Shrubs for Seaside Planting

3 pages

Plants for Partially Shaded Locations

IT OFTEN becomes necessary to make a selection of the lowergrowing trees and shrubs to be planted in partially shaded situations. This…

Wooded Areas

2 pages

Undergrowth Planting in Wooded Areas

2 pages

Plants for Ground Cover

5 pages

List of Plants for Ground Cover

A. MOIST LOCATIONS. This group of plants is adapted for locations where the soil conditions are apt to be continually moist. There are some…

H. Ground Cover Among Rhododendrons and Azaleas

This group contains plants which are excellently adapted to the same kind of soil and the same kind of treatment as are the types of…

Game Cover Plants

2 pages

List of Game Cover Plants

The following group of plants are valuable for use as ground cover where there is also a chance to provide suitable shelters for game…

Perennials for Different Purposes

15 pages

Shrub Borders

Cerastium tomentosum Snow-in-summer Iberis sempervirens Evergreen Candytuft Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Leadwort Saxifraga (in variety)…

Annuals

NO GARDEN is complete without its quota of annuals. The socalled perennial garden, to be really successful, must be supplemented each year…

List of Annuals

A. ANNUALS ESPECIALLY VALUABLE FOR CUT FLOWERS. The group of annuals which are valuable for cut flowers is much greater than might be…

Insure a Succession of Bloom

5 pages

Horticultural Varieties

4 pages

Select Lists of Horticultural Varieties

The question of publishing special lists of the more standard horticultural varieties may be open to some criticism. These lists are…

A. Lilacs

Alba Major Marie Legraye Virginalis Princess Alexandria Frau Bertha Damann Double:

B. Peonies

Le Cygne Elizabeth B. Browning Kelway's Glorious Festiva Maxima Baroness Schroeder Mme. Emil Lemoine Francis Willard Albatre Alsace…

C. Small Flowering Trees

Crataegus arnoldiana Large-flowering Thorn Crataegus carrieri Carrier's Red-flowering Thorn Crataegus cordata Washington Thorn Crataegus…

D. Roses

Pyrus zumi Siebold's Blush-flowering Crab Rivers' Semi-double Chinese Flowering Low-growing Japanese Crab Best Climbing Roses: (The first…

E. Broad-Leaved Evergreens

Album elegans (light blush) Album grandiflora (light blush) Alexander Dancer (light rose) Atrosanguineum (blood red early) Caractacus (rich…

F. Lilies

The following table contains the best sorts for the average grower and indicates the culture, season of bloom, colour of flower, and usual…

Colour Of

3 pages

Vines

VINES constitute a small but important group of plants possessing certain characteristics which are very valuable for use in landscape…

List of Vines

The vines included in the groups of this list are respectively valuable for their ability to produce flowers, for their use on brick and…

Window Boxes and Hanging Baskets

4 pages

Bulbs

This is a type of planting which can provide as many interesting flower effects as any annual, perennial, or shrub planting. It is the type…

List of Bulbs

4 pages

Fragrant Plants

2 pages

List of Fragrant Plants

A. FRAGRANT FLOWERS. The plants in this group are valuable because of the fragrance of their flowers. It is an interesting fact that many…

Poisonous Plants

2 pages

List of Poisonous Plants

Poisonous plants may be divided into two groups: A. Plants which if taken internally either cause irritation or poison the blood. B. Skin…

A. Internally Poisonous

Aconitum napellus Monkshood Amanita muscaria Mushroom Amanita phalloides Mushroom Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-pulpit Atropa belladonna…

B. Skin Irritants

Primula obconica Hairy Primula Rhus radicans Poison Ivy Rhus toxicodendron Poison Oak Rhus vernix Poison Sumac Stipa spartea (skin irritant…

Ornamental Plants Subject to Disease And Insect Pests

THE purpose of the list of plants given below is not to discourage any prospective planter, even though the list is a formidable one, nor…

Ornamental Plants

2 pages

Insect Pests

Not all trees are equally seriously affected by insect pests and in the list below where a long list of insects and diseases are given…

Seasons of the Year

THE fact is well appreciated that of all our great range of material used in landscape plantings there are a certain number of these…

Specific Seasons of the Year

Under excellent care, good results may be attained by transplanting all plants during the fall planting season, or during the spring…

Shrubs for Forcing in Water in Early Spring

BEFORE winter has gone and the warm days of early spring cause our early-flowering shrubs to mature some very interesting flowers early…

Shrubs for Forcing in Water

plants for forcing in water. All sorts of currants are likely to be successful, even including the common black currant of our gardens. The…

Pruning Requirements

2 pages

A. Shrubs Needing Complete Pruning

Benzoin aestivale Spice Bush Berberis thunbergi Thunberg's Japanese Barberry Cephalanthus occidentalis Button Bush Cercis canadensis…

Plants for Florida

8 pages

List of Plants for Florida

A. WINDBREAKS. It is often necessary in many locations, especially along the water fronts, to plant windbreaks that will preserve the more…

B. Trees for Street and Specimen Planting

Northern list: This group of trees covers material which can be used throughout northern Florida, southern Georgia, Alabama, and over the…

Plants for Minnesota

2 pages

List of Plants for Minnesota

A. HEDGES. Owing to the severe exposure to which a hedge may be subjected only small groups can be recommended as entirely "ironclad." No…

Plants for South Atlantic States

8 pages

Ton Coastal Plain

THE planting districts in the northwest are very sharply defined. They include (1) the West Slope; that is, between the coast and the…

Oregon and Washington Coastal Plain

14 pages

Ington Coastal Plain

A. HEDGES. This group is divided into deciduous and evergreen plants. It is noteworthy by reason of the fact that there are more…

Magazine Reference

85 pages

Transplanting Trees, Shrubs Vines, and Perennials

How to Succeed with Lurie Garden Magazine Oct., 1918 Fall Planting Fall Planting for Pendleton Garden Magazine Oct., 1918 Spring Flowers…

List of Plants Valuable for the Characteristics

A. PRODUCING FRUIT OF PECULIARLY INTERESTING FORM OR SIZE. This group consists of types of plants which produce fruit that has a landscape…

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