Chapter II: Preface: To Second Edition

This edition has been thoroughly revised to render it as useful as possible to those who desire a larger acquaintance with the many beautiful trees and shrubs that are hardy in this country. I must tender my heartiest thanks to Mr. William Atkinson (Messrs. Fisher, Son, & Sibray) for his valuable help in preparing this edition. Many of the illustrations represent trees and shrubs in the Royal Gardens, Kew, which are not only beautiful in themselves, but are the centre of scientific research.

E. T. C.

_March 1908._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. WANT OF VARIETY A BLEMISH 1

II. ORNAMENTAL PLANTING IN WOODLAND 6

III. GROUPING OF TREES AND SHRUBS 8

IV. HEATHY PATHS IN OUTER GARDEN SPACES 13

V. TREES AND SHRUBS IN POOR SOILS 17

VI. PRUNING FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 19

VII. PROPAGATION OF HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS 38

VIII. A WINTER GARDEN OF TREES AND SHRUBS 47

IX. TREES AND SHRUBS WITH BEAUTIFUL CATKINS 65

X. AUTUMN COLOURS 71

XI. TREES AND SHRUBS WITH FINE FRUITS 77

XII. WEEPING TREES AND THEIR USES 88

XIII. THE USE OF VARIEGATED TREES AND SHRUBS 93

XIV. TREES AND SHRUBS FOR SEA-COAST 101

XV. TREES AND SHRUBS FOR WIND-SWEPT GARDENS 106

XVI. CONIFERS (INCLUDING PINES) IN ORNAMENTAL PLANTING 110

XVII. CARE OF OLD TREES 129

XVIII. TREES AND SHRUBS FOR WATERSIDE 134

XIX. TREES AND SHRUBS FOR ROCK GARDEN 138

XX. REMOVAL OF LARGE TREES AND SHRUBS 151

XXI. YOUNG TREES AND SUNSTROKE 159

XXII. SHADE TREES FOR STREETS 163

XXIII. TREES AND SHRUBS IN SCOTLAND 166

XXIV. TENDER SHRUBS AND TREES IN THE SOUTH-WEST 187

XXV. TENDER WALL PLANTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST 208

XXVI. TREES AND SHRUBS IN IRELAND 215

XXVII. HARDY BAMBOOS 218

XXVIII. THE HEATHS 226

XXIX. NATIVE AND OTHER HARDY EVERGREENS 240

XXX. SHRUBS FOR SMALL AND TOWN GARDENS 251

XXXI. SHRUB AND FLOWER BORDERS 257

XXXII. SHRUBS UNDER TREES 260

XXXIII. HARDY SHRUBS IN THE GREENHOUSE 263

XXXIV. SHRUB GROUPS FOR WINTER AND SUMMER EFFECT 283

XXXV. THE USE OF HARDY CLIMBING SHRUBS 303

XXXVI. FLOWERING AND OTHER HEDGES 324

XXXVII. PLEACHED OR GREEN ALLEYS 334

XXXVIII. THE GARDEN ORCHARD 338

XXXIX. THE WORTHY USE OF ROSES 342

XL. PLANTING AND STAKING TREES 353

XLI. HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS, TABLES OF 357

INDEX 489

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CLUSTER PINE (_Pinus Pinaster_) _Frontispiece_

GUELDER ROSE _To face page_ 2

MAGNOLIA STELLATA " " 3

AESCULUS PARVIFLORA (late July) " " 4

SLOE, DOUBLE-FLOWERED (_Prunus spinosa, fl. pl._) " " 5

IN THE WOODLAND AT KEW " " 6

WAYFARING TREE (_Viburnum Lantana_) " " 7

GROUPING OF SHRUB AND DAFFODIL " " 10

NATURAL GROUPING OF SHRUB IN ROUGH GROUND " " 11

SHRUB AND IRIS GROUPS BY WOODLAND " " 14

AZALEA GARDEN AT KEW " " 15

CEANOTHUS AZUREUS AT KEW " " 24

CEANOTHUS AZUREUS, MARIE SIMON " " 25

PEARL BUSH (_Exochorda grandiflora_) " " 26

HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA (Unpruned) " " 30

HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA " " 31

TULIP TREE AT RANELAGH (Winter) " " 46

LIME (Winter Beauty) " " 47

WITCH HAZEL (_Hamamelis japonica_, var. _zuccariniana_) " " 62

ULMUS ALATA " " 63

WILLOW, BABYLONIAN BY WATERSIDE " " 88

ASH, WEEPING " " 89

WEEPING ASPEN (_Populus tremula_, var. _pendula_) " " 90

WEEPING WYCH ELM " " 91

ELAEAGNUS PUNGENS " " 98

CORNUS MAS (var. _variegata_) " " 99

TAURIAN TAMARISK (_Tamarix tetrandra_) IN FLOWER " " 103

ASHES BY WATER EDGE " " 106

LOMBARDY POPLAR " " 107

CORSICAN PINE WALK " " 110

ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA (Chili Pine) AVENUE " " 111

MAIDENHAIR TREE AT FROGMORE " " 112

MAIDENHAIR TREE AT KEW " " 113

CORSICAN PINE (var. _tenuifolia_) " " 114

AVENUE OF ABIES (_nobilis glauca_) " " 118

CEDRUS ATLANTICA GLAUCA AVENUE " " 119

LIBOCEDRUS DECURRENS (Frogmore) " " 121

AVENUE OF YEW (Murthly) " " 124

ALDERS NEAR WATER " " 134

WHITE WILLOW (_Salix alba_) BY WATERSIDE " " 135

NATURAL TREE GROWTH BY WATER (Burnham Beeches) " " 136

WILLOWS BY WATERSIDE " " 137

CISTUSES AND ROSES IN ROCK GARDEN " " 140

DWARF SHRUBS IN ROCK GARDEN " " 141

ONONIS FRUTICOSA (Shrubby Rest-Harrow) AT EXETER " " 150

TREE IN COURSE OF REMOVAL " " 151

PLANE TREE (_Platanus orientalis_) " " 164

CYTISUS PRAECOX " " 178

A VARIETY OF MAHALEB CHERRY (_Prunus Mahaleb_,
var. _chrysocarpa_) " " 179

GUELDER ROSE OR SNOWBALL TREE " " 184

WYCH ELMS BY HEDGEROW " " 185

EDWARDSIA GRANDIFLORA " " 198

FABIANA IMBRICATA " " 199

PINUS MONTEZUMAE " " 204

PUERARIA THUNBERGIANA " " 212

YUCCAS, PAMPAS GRASS, AND BAMBOOS (Kew) " " 218

BAMBOO GARDEN AT KEW " " 219

ERICA CARNEA " " 232

A GROUPING OF HEATHS " " 233

WHITE SCOTCH HEATHER (_Erica cinerea alba_) " " 234

WHITE MEDITERRANEAN HEATH (_Erica mediterranea alba_) " " 235

WEEPING HOLLY " " 247

ARBUTUS MENZIESII " " 248

HIBISCUS SYRIACUS (_Althaea frutex_, var. _caeruleus_) " " 252

MOCK ORANGE (_Philadelphus coronarius_) " " 253

TALL EVERGREEN SHRUBS IN FLOWER BORDER " " 258

SPIRAEA CANESCENS " " 294

CLEMATIS MONTANA OVER ROUGH WALL " " 300

CLEMATIS MONTANA OVER ARCHWAY " " 301

CAMELLIA LEAF AND FRUIT (Outdoors) " " 316

DUTCH HONEYSUCKLE ON WALL " " 317

POLYGONUM BALDSCHUANICUM OVER FIR " " 318

PRUNUS TRILOBA ON SUNNY WALL " " 319

OLD WISTARIA AT HAMPTON COURT " " 322

WISTARIA RACEMES " " 323

GREAT BEECH HEDGE " " 330

HEDGE OF MAIDENS' BLUSH ROSE " " 331

NUT WALK " " 334

OLD APPLE WALK " " 335

OLD MULBERRY TREE, SYON " " 338

OLD MEDLAR TREE " " 339

ROSA MULTIFLORA " " 348

HYBRID ROSE UNA " " 349

STAKING TREES " " 354

HORSE CHESTNUT " " 358

CATALPA OR INDIAN BEAN TREE (_C. bignonioides_) " " 366

CISTUS VILLOSUS " " 370

CYTISUS CAPITATUS " " 373

MOONLIGHT BROOM (_Cytisus scoparius_, var. _pallidus_) " " 376

A HYBRID BROOM (_Cytisus kewensis_) " " 377

GARLAND FLOWER (_Daphne Cneorum_) " " 382

ERINACEA PUNGENS " " 383

MAY-FLOWER (_Epigaea repens_) " " 384

ESCALLONIA PHILIPPIANA " " 385

SPANISH FURZE (_Genista (Ulex) hispanica_) " " 388

SPANISH FURZE ON ROUGH SLOPE " " 389

GENISTA MONOSPERMA " " 390

SHOOT OF SNOWDROP TREE (_Halesia tetraptera_) " " 392

HYDRANGEAS " " 393

HYDRANGEA PETIOLARIS " " 394

KALMIA LATIFOLIA " " 395

YULAN (_Magnolia conspicua_) " " 402

YULAN AS A WALL SHRUB " " 403

MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA, var. _soulangeana_ (late Spring) " " 404

OLEARIA MACRODONTA " " 405

PRUNUS PERSICA " " 410

SPIRAEA ARGUTA " " 414

PRUNUS SERRULATA " " 416

PRUNUS PADUS, FL. PL. " " 417

PYRUS SINAICA " " 420

PYRUS SPECTABILIS " " 422

SIBERIAN CRAB (_Pyrus Malus baccata_) " " 423

PYRUS LOBATA " " 427

RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM (Hybrid) " " 428

RHODODENDRON HYBRID (Donegal) " " 429

RHODODENDRON PRAECOX " " 432

RHODODENDRON SAPHO IN IRISH GARDEN (Donegal) " " 433

CALIFORNIAN POPPY (_Romneya Coulteri_) " " 449

NEILLIA (SPIRAEA) OPULIFOLIA " " 452

SPIRAEA LINDLEYANA " " 453

LILACS " " 456

STANDARD LILAC " " 457

VIBURNUM MACROCEPHALUM " " 464

YUCCA GLORIOSA IN A SURREY GARDEN " " 466

YUCCA FILAMENTOSA " " 467

PTEROCARYA CAUCASICA " " 480

CORK OAK (_Quercus Suber_) " " 481

EVERGREEN OAKS " " 482

DOVASTON YEW ON STEEP BANK " " 486

TREES AND SHRUBS