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What kinds of shrubs and flowers shall I plant? This is a 

 wholly secondary and largely personal consideration. Be sure 

 that the main plantings are made up of hardy and vigorous spe- 

 cies, and have lots of them. Then get the things which you like. 

 I like bull-thistles, lilacs, hollyhocks, burdocks, rhubarb, dog- 

 woods, spireas, elders and such careless things. But others have 



161.— a " fill " in a back yard. 



better tastes. There is endless merit in the choice of species, but 

 the point I want to emphasize is that the arrangement or disposi- 

 tion of the plants is far more important than the kinds. 



It should be said that the appreciation of foliage effects in the 

 landscape is a higher tyipe of feeling than the desire for mere 

 color. Flowers are transitory, but foliage and plant forms are 

 abiding. The common roses have very little value for landscape 

 planting, because the foliage and habit of the rose bush are not 



