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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 rhododendrons and azaleas with which they are used. Many of these plants such as the lilies, hypericums, and some others, provide flowers during a portion of the season when the large shrubs are not in flower. Aronia arbutifolia Red Chokeberry Asarum canadense Wild Ginger Chamaedaphne calyculata Leather-leaf Cotoneaster horizontalis Prostrate Cotoneaster Erythronium (in variety) Adder's-tongue Fern (in variety) Fern Galax aphylla Galax Goodyera pubescens Rattle-snake Plantain Helonias bullata Swamp-pink Houstonia caerulea Bluet Hypericum calycinum Aaron's Beard Hypericum moserianum Gold-flower Ilex glabra Inkberry Ledum groenlandicum Labrador Tea Leiophyllum (in variety) Mountain Heath Leucothoë catesbaei Catesby's Andromeda Lilium canadense Wild Yellow Lily Lilium pardalinum Panther Lily Lilium speciosum Japanese Lily Lilium superbum Turks' Cap Lily Lilium tenuifolium Siberian Coral Lily Mertensia virginica Bluebell Mitchella repens Partridge Berry Pachysandra terminalis Japanese Spurge Pieris (in variety) Fetterbush Pyxidanthera barbulata Flowering Moss Rhodora canadensis Rhodora Shortia galacifolia Shortia Taxus canadensis Ground Yew Trillium (in variety) Wake Robin Vinca minor Periwinkle Vinca minor alba White Periwinkle Viola (in variety) Violet Xanthorrhiza apiifolia Yellow-root I. GROUND COVER AMONG ROSES. Many persons object to the bare ground existing among roses. For the best success in growing roses every opportunity should be provided for cultivating the area around each rosebush. During a portion of the season, however, this bareness of the soil can be overcome by the use of an interesting carpet, providing colour at a season of the year when the roses have passed the height of their bloom. Any ground-cover planting among roses should be watched carefully in order to eliminate the possibility that the ground-cover plants absorb food which should remain for the rose plants, or that they should prevent cultivation at a time when the roses need cultivating.

Alyssum maritimum Sweet Alyssum Dianthus heddewigi Japanese Pink Petunia hybrida Petunia Phlox drummondi Annual Phlox Viola tricolor Pansy Portulaca grandiflora Rose Moss Reseda odorata Mignonette Verbena hybrida Verbena Viola cornuta (in variety) Tufted Pansy