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.

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These groups contain the very fastest growing and most temporary types of trees and shrubs, and the more rapid-growing types of trees and shrubs often used in permanent plantings. Material may be selected from these groups when an immediate foliage effect is desired .

A. Trees:

Acer negundo Box Elder Acer saccharinum Silver Maple Ailanthus glandulosa Tree of Heaven Catalpa speciosa Western Catalpa Larix europea European Larch.

Maclura pomifera Osage Orange Morus alba tatarica Mulberry B. Shrubs:

Cornus alba sibirica Siberian Dogwood Cornus stolonifera Red Osier Cornel Deutzia crenata Pride of Rochester Large-flowered Deutzia Diervilla florida Rose-coloured Weigela Phellodendron amurense Chinese Cork Tree Picea excelsa Norway Spruce Pinus sylvestris Scotch Pine Platanus orientalis Oriental Plane Populus (in variety) Poplar Robinia pseudacacia Black Locust Salix (in variety) Willow Ligustrum amurense Amoor River Privet Lonicera (in variety) Bush Honeysuckle Philadelphus grandiflorus Large-flowered Mock Orange Physocarpus opulifolius Ninebark Sambucus canadensis American Elder

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