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them, sow in the seeds of hard}' annual flowers, like phlox, 

 petunia, alyssum and pinks. The person who plants his shrubs 

 in holes in tho sward does not seriously mean to make any t'oli- 

 age mass, and it is likely that he does not know what relation the 

 border-mass has to artistic planting. I haye said to plant the 

 bushes thick. This is for quick effect. It is an easy matter to 

 thin the plantation if it becomes too thick. I should generally 

 plant all common bushes as close as two feet apart each way, 

 especially if I get most of them from the fields so that I do not 

 haye to buy them. 



165.— Diagram of Fig. 164. 50 x 90 feet. 



II. Some specific examples. 



All these remarks will mean more if the reader is shown some 

 concrete examples. I haye selected a few cases, not because 

 they are the best or eyen because they are good enough for 

 models, but because they lay in my way and illustrate what I 

 desire to teach. We will first look at a yery ordinary front yard. 

 Fig. 158 shows the yard as it looked before the shrubbery was 

 planted. The large tree seen in the foreground at the left, and 

 the spruce, were remoyed. A little sprig of exochorda had been 

 planted the year before and is now carefully guarded by stakes. 

 Four years later sees the yard as shown in Fig. 159. The little 



