PLANTS FOR UNDERGROWTH PLANTING IN WOODED AREAS

The plants which most successfully fill the requirements for under-growth planting are our native woodland species. These requirementsare mainly the ability to succeed in partial or dense shade and also tosurvive the struggle for moisture, food, and room which always existsin a naturalistic planting where the ground below and the air aboveare already well occupied by large trees. Our northern forests con-tain a profusion of plants which will succeed as undergrowth. Buttoo often in the past not enough care has been taken to choose onlythose plants which are desirable from an ornamental point of view. It'is possible, however, to select from the large amount of available mate-rial all the plants which are necessary to carry out an undergrowthplanting on any scale, and at the same time use only plants which aredesirable on account of their flowering habits, their fruits, the autumncolouration of their leaves, their evergreen character, or some equallyvaluable characteristic quality.