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the plantation is made the shrub should be spaced so that when 

 it is fully grown the foliage of each shrub will just touch the 

 one next to it and no more. The idea is to shade the ground 

 thoroughly and completely so that the grass will be shaded out 

 and the weeds thus prevented from growing. Planting is often 

 done which is spaced so closely that in three or four years the 

 shrubs are spindling. Thus you lose both the effect of flower 

 and foliage, but if they are properly spaced the shrub will arch 



A terrace lawn with planting. 



over, maintain its characteristic space and then the next one 

 to it will merge with it. Then you will obtain mass effects of 

 flowers or foliage, and instead of having one or two lilacs in 

 bloom, then a space of lawn sixteen or eighteen or twenty feet 

 and then two or three more lilacs, you will have four lilacs in 

 bloom together. In that way, one secures mass effect instead of 

 the scattered effects which one so often sees where the shrub is 

 planted in sod. 



Then another phase of the question — in which nurserymen 

 will bear me out — is that no shrubs ever do so well if planted 

 in grass as when planted in a properly prepared bed. One often 

 sees shrubs well planted at the start, but in two or three years 

 the grass rapidly grows towards the shrub and the shrub gets 



