SHRUBBERY, 



SHRUBBERY. 



Sheep Laurel. — See Ka'liiia. 



Sheep's Scabious.— Jasio'ne. 



Shephe'rdIxV. — ElcecignecB. — 

 Beautiful slirubs or low trees, with 

 silvery leaves, wMch were formerly 

 considered to belong to the genus 

 Hippophae. The silvery appearance 

 of the leaves is produced by their 

 outer surface being of a bluish green, 

 and their lower surface lined with a 

 soft silky dovv-n of a snowy white- 

 ness. The plants are natives of 

 North America, and may be gro'R'n 

 in peat or in veiy sandy loam. 



Shera'rdia. — RuhiacecB. — Field 

 Madder. — Very pretty British 

 weeds, which may be introduced 

 with good effect on rock-work. 



Shifting is the operation of 

 transferring plants grown in small 

 pots to othei- pots a little larger ; 

 and it is of very great advantage 

 when it is wished to keep plants 

 short and bushy. In shifting, the 

 ball of earth round the roots is not 

 broken, but placed in the centre of 

 the new pot, and the earth filled in 

 round it. — See Potting. 



Single Oak. — Quercus imlrl- 

 cata. 



Shrubby Trefoil. — Ptelea tri- 

 folicUa. — See Pte'lea. 



Shrubby Cinquefoil. — Poten- 

 tllla fruticosa. — See Potenti'lla. 



Shrubbery A walk bordered 



by shrubs and trees with some 

 flowers in front, is called a shrub- 

 bery. In small villas it generally 

 leads from the house to the kitchen- 

 garden ; and sometimes goes round 

 the latter, or is conducted round 

 an open lawn. The object in 

 forming a shrubbery is to produce 

 as great an extent of interesting 

 walk as the nature, extent, and 

 other circumstances of the place 

 will admit. There is then no 

 positive rule for either the length of 

 a shrubbery walk or its direction ; 

 and unless a given situation were 



to be treated of, only some general 

 directions can be given, or principles 

 laid doAATi, respecting the planting 

 of the shrubs and trees. 



If we examine most of the shrub- 

 beries in country residences, we 

 shall find that there is a general 

 sameness in the appearance of the 

 trees and shrubs with Avhich they 

 are planted, fi'om one end of the 

 shrubbery to the other. This 

 sameness results from the mode 

 commonly employed of mixing those 

 kinds of trees and shrubs that can 

 be most readily procured indiscri- 

 minately together. Some evergreens 

 are distributed throughout the 

 whole, such as a few Hollies, and a 

 few Pines and Firs ; Laurels, with 

 a few Pioses, and perhaps a few 

 Honeysuckles. The rest is made 

 wp of the common mixture planted 

 by contractors or jobbing gardeners 

 on such occasions. The object is 

 merely to produce a plantation 

 which shall have some flowering 

 shrubs in it, and some herbaceous 

 shrubs and Roses. If we examine 

 the progress of such a plantation 

 from the time it has been planted 

 till it has attained the age of 

 twenty or thirty years, we shall 

 find that at the end of four or five 

 years the herbaceous plants will 

 become choked up, and are either 

 killed or rendered unsightly. In 

 six years the Pioses will have ceased 

 to flower freely for want of light 

 and air, and of manuring the soil ; 

 and hence they will have become 

 the very reverse of ornamental. In 

 ten years the finer shrubs will have 

 been choked up by the coarser 

 kinds, and in twenty years almost 

 all the shrubs will have vanished, 

 having been destroyed by the trees. 

 There is no way of preventing this 

 result to a shrubbery planted in the 

 usual manner, except by constant 

 thinning ; beginning in the third 



