PLANTS FOR PARTIALLY SHADED LOCATIONS : Page 522

The difficulty with many kinds of trees and shrubs planted in shadedlocations is that the lack of sunlight prevents them from attaining anormal development. The foliage becomes thin and the branches areapt to grow long and spindly. Plants indigenous to such conditions,however, and which have come to thrive with this lessened supply oflight, in partially shaded conditions, develop an interesting type offoliage; but flower effects on such plants are never quite as heavy as onplants which are supplied with sufficient light. In the making ofplantations of this kind the only logical hope can be that of pro-ducing a foliage effect which serves as a background for a lawn andalso often serves as a partial screen to give privacy to some garden orto shut off a service yard or other undesirable area.