. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. HARDY PERENNIALS. Fig. 124. Day Lily — Hosta caeruCea This principle of limiting one's self to a comparatively small list of the oldest and commonest plants has to be adopted by the professional landscape gardener, in fact, as well as by the layman. It is merely a question of drawing a line. The landscape gardener should know a considerably longer list of plants than the grocery- man or the banker; the professional plantsman will know a great many more than the landscape garden
. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. HARDY PERENNIALS. Fig. 124. Day Lily — Hosta caeruCea This principle of limiting one's self to a comparatively small list of the oldest and commonest plants has to be adopted by the professional landscape gardener, in fact, as well as by the layman. It is merely a question of drawing a line. The landscape gardener should know a considerably longer list of plants than the grocery- man or the banker; the professional plantsman will know a great many more than the landscape gardener; but even the nuttiest plantsman must stop somewhere. No living man, sane or crazy, can know all the good plants in the world. The first duty of the student, therefore, is to ascertain what are the leading genera of old-fashioned plants, next to learn what are the best species or varieties in each group. This can be done only amongst the plants themselves, whether they are growing in gardens, nurseries or in the wild. All these separate sources should be utilized. The plants should be studied everywhere. 255. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. ; [etc. , etc. ]
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