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when the soil is well drained or light and sandy. There are someplants, however, like the moss pink, the sea thrift, and the Japaneseevergreen ivy, which seem to thrive almost equally well in moistsituations or dry situations. The plants shown in Group A are thosewhich have proved their value as being adapted to conditions whichare continually moist, and should preferably be grown in the opensunlight and not subjected to any considerable degree of shade. Plants which are adapted to dry situations, especially conditions ofsandy soil or extreme drainage where grass will not thrive, include asmall group which have proved themselves very hardy. The bar-berry, the Japanese spurge, the moss pink, and the stonecrops are fullyrepresentative of this group. The mat of foliage formed by the plantsin their more mature development serves to shade the ground beneathand, to a certain extent, to retain much moisture in the soil whichotherwise would be lost through evaporation. This group includes theclose-growing types of plants which are selected mostly because of theirability to form a definite mat. Many of them such as the stonecrops,the tunica, and the moss pink, are extremely valuable because of theirflowering habit, although effective during a short period only. TheJapanese spurge, the partridge berry, and the bearberry are valuabledistinctly on account of their foliage habits. |
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