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In addition to their light requirements, plants need adequate moisture in the air. Except for desert varieties, all plants grow best where the relative humidity is 40% and over and are adversely affected by air drought where the relative humidity is under 20%.
Before buying a plant, one should learn its botanical name, for its common name may be used for several different plants. Knowing the correct name of a plant enables one to learn about its culture by consulting a reference book or a plant dealer. Before buying, one should examine the plant for insects and diseases. This does not mean, however, that one should always reject a plant because it has a few yellow leaves, for all plants lose old leaves now and then. If the plant is bought on a cold day, it should be wrapped well to prevent it from being nipped by frost on the way home. On a hot day, plants should not be placed in the trunk of a car because they may be damaged by heat.The rockspray cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis) is a hardy shrub (Cotoneaster is a Greek word meaning "like a quince" and refers to the leaves in some of the species resembling those of a quince tree) of great garden merit. A young plant will grow against a bank keeping only inches off the ground. Eventually it will carpet the area with overlayered branches of a herringbone pattern each covered with shiny deep green leaves. At this point the plant will start to grow up to a height between 2 and 3 feet. It will also—if trained—grow against a Wall without being fixed, or if planted on the edge, pour over like a waterfall. Flowers in June are small, pink, and easily missed but in the fall, the whole shrub is covered with bright red berries that will persist into spring.
Once a framework has been formed, the most important objective is to keep the climber in check—lateral shoots may grow up to 12ft in a single year and unless this over-exuberant growth is pruned, the plant can soon become a jungle of stems and may grow too large for its allotted area. Severely pruning a wisteria during winter will only encourage even more rapid growth.
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