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SHRUBBERY. 374 SHRUBERERY. 
management. These remarks may | kinds. The most complete shrub- 
be considered as directions for mak-| bery that can be imagined is one 
ing the most of a shrubbery already | which should contain all the larger 
planted in the common manner ;| trees distributed along it as a back- 
and, in so far as thinning is concern- | ground, with all the smaller trees 
ed, they will equally apply to the|in front; next to these should be 
mode of planting which is now| the larger shrubs, then the smaller 
about to be described. | shrubs, next the Roses, and finally 
Planting shrubberies sv as to pro- | in the front, apart from the Roses, 
duce variety in the aspect of the| should be the herbaceous plants; 
plantation is to be effected by one | thus forming a splendid bank of 
vegetation on level ground. To 
mode only, and that is to cause one | 
kind of tree or shrub always to pre- | prevent such an arrangement from 
vail in one place. In extensive | becoming monotonous, it is essen- 
shrubberies this will require several | tially necessary that it should be 
plants of the same species or varie- | combined with the natural system 
ty to be placed together: but this | of relationship between the kinds; 
occasions no additional expense ;| and this ought to be carried out in 
because, in a common shrubbery at | the Roses, and in the herbaceous 
least, the same numbei of plants of plants, no less than in the shrubs 
one species would be planted, the | and trees. To solve this problem 
only difference being that they | so as to carry the idea into execu- 
would be placed in different parts | tion, is one of the nicest points for 
of the plantation. In a small shrub-| an amateur landscape-gardener to 
bery, perhaps not more than one or | attempt. 
two plants of a species or variety} All shrubberies whatever, how- 
might be required ; more especially | ever scientifically they may be plant- 
if the object was to include as ex-| ed and thinned out afterwards, will 
tensive a collection in the shrubbery | ultimately become old, and entirely 
as could conveniently be procured. | lose the character which they had 
There are almost a thousand trees | during the first eight or ten years 
and shrubs, exclusive of Roses, in| after planting. Hence, in small 
British nurseries, which may be | places, which have been planted a 
purchased at moderate prices ; and | certain number of years, it is im- 
all these may be used in a shrubbe- | possible to have a shrubbery such 
ry which contains no more ground|as is here described, without re- 
than a single acre. Supposing that | moving the large trees and shrubs 
only one plant of a kind is planted, | already existing ; and this must ne- 
and supposing that each genus or cessarily depend on the taste of the 
natural order is kept by itself, every | proprietor, and whether a collec- 
part of the surface of the plantation | tion of young trees and shrubs, 
will be different from that which | which have a bare and new look, 
precedes or follows it; and the | but which will be continually in- 
greatest variety which the case ad- creasing in beauty and magnitude, 
mits of will be produced. So many | be preferred to a few full-grown 
plants planted on one acre, will, | plants which are already in a state 
however, soon cover the soil; and | of perfection, and which have an 
therefore in three years after plant- | air of grandeur and repose. 
ing, it will be necessary to begin to| When a shrubbery is planted, 
thin them. The thinning in this | and for some years afterwards, the 
tase ought to be directed to the re-| ground should be kept clean of 
moval of the commoner and coarser | weeds by hoeing or slight digging ; 
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