The Planting of Shrubbery. 



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exochorda has now grown to be the large bush in the very fore- 

 ground with the child's tricycle behind it, and the porch founda- 

 tion is screened and a border is thereby given to the lawn. The 

 length of this planting from end to end is about fourteen feet, 

 with a projection towards the front, on the left, of ten feet. In 

 the bay at the base of this projection the planting is only two 

 feet wide, and from here it graduall}- swings out to the steps, 





eight feet wide. The prominent large-leafed plant near the steps 

 is a bramble very common in the neighborhood, Rubus odoratus, 

 and it is a choice plant for decorative planting. The plants in 

 this tangle in front of the porch are all from the wild, and com- 

 prise a prickly ash, several plants of two wild osiers or dogwoods, 

 a spice bush, rose, wild sunflow^ers and asters and golden-rods. 

 The promontory at the left is a more ambitious but less effective 

 mass. It contains the exochorda, a reed, variegated elder, saca- 



