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SHRUBBERY. 
and the shrubbery should be sepa- | ‘which he will suffer any grass to 
SIDA. 
rated from the walk by a verge of | | grow ; while the roses and. herba- 
turf or of box. 
When the opposite. ceous plants which have long ceased 
side of the walk is turf, such as a| to be either healthy or ornamental, 
lawn, then the side next the shrubs 
must have a verge of turf also; but | 
where a walk passes through the 
middle of a shrubbery, box edgings / 
may be used on both sides. 
In 
general, however, a grass verge is 
greatly to be preferred, as being 
more appropriate to a scene con- 
nected with the lawn; and as not | 
calling up ideas of a kitchen-gar- 
den, or of a small flower-garden, | 
where the beds are usually edged 
with box. Whatever may be the 
width of the gravel-walk, the grass | 
“verge should not be narrower than 
two feet, because less than that. 
width cannot always be kept in 
good order; such as neatly mown, | 
level, and with the margins clipped 
but not pared. Besides, a narrow | 
verge has an appearance of mean-_| 
ness, and gives the idea of want of | 
As the shrubs spread over | 
space. 
the ground, there will soon be 
scarcely any part of the interior of | 
the shrubbery that will not be cover- | 
and | 
the shrubs along the margin will | 
ed by their lower branches ; 
extend their branches towards the 
verge and even spread over it. 
rally happens in four or five years, 
all digging and hoeing becomes un- 
necessary ; and the turf verge ought 
to be encouraged to extend in w idth 
are left to display their stunted and 
naked branches, with the dug earth 
for a background. The constant 
digging and. stirring of the ground 
breaks off the branches of the 
shrubs, and thus an unsightly gap 
is created, which entirely destroys 
all the pleasing ideas excited by 
glades of smooth turf appearing 
| here and there to penetrate among 
the trees. ‘I'o produce this latter 
effect, as the branches of any of the 
shrubs begin to spread over the 
verge, all digging and paring ought 
to be left off, and the grass encour- 
aged to extend itself into the bays 
and recesses of the plantation. In 
like manner, in a shrubbery with 
the walks edged with box, the box 
ought to be removed whenever the 
branches begin to spread over it, 
leaving no edging to the walk at all 
except what is formed by the re- 
tiring and advancing of the branches 
of the shrubs. ‘This will form a 
walk with what is called picturesque 
edgings ; but if a definite or a gar- 
denesque edging is required, it may 
be formed of brick or stone. On 
'no account whatever ought any 
When this is the case, which gene- | 
kind of vegetable edging to be kept 
up which does not grow freely; for 
it Is a maxim in gardening which 
ought never to be forgotten, that 
what cannot be grown well, ought 
under the branches of the plants, | not to be grown at all. 
the roses and herbaceous plants, if 
Srserian Cras.—Py'rus baccata, 
any have been planted, being re-| and P. prunifolia—These trees, 
moved. This is a point in the man-| though frequently grown in kitchen- 
agement of shrubberies which is 
almost everywhere defective ; for 
the gardener generally continues 
cutting the inner edge of the verge 
and digging the ground among the 
herbaceous plants and the roses, till 
he has reduced the verge to about 
six or eight inches in width next the 
walk, this being the only part on 
cy 
gardens and orchards for their fruit, 
deserve admission into ornamental 
plantations for the beauty of their 
Crabs when ripe. 
Srperian Pea Tree.—A hardy 
flowering shrub.—See CaraGana. 
S1‘pa.— Malvdcee.-—Stove, green- 
house, and hardy plants, natives of 
the East. and West Indies, and 
