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looking stones or a vine-covered iron wire has real value 

 as a landscape feature in itself. The use of the vines 

 and the stone, or the wire, are however chiefly a means 

 of making known the existence of a boundary line. 

 Consequently the blending of boundary plantations, 

 trees and shrubs and vines, should be so complete as 

 to largely confine itself to the suggestion of the presence 

 of a limit to the place. There would naturally be 

 views here and there, out and beyond, except on oc- 

 casions when discordant elements need shutting out. 

 The "hedge" sensation should be eliminated, and the 

 border plantation made after the type which in the 

 case of trees and shrubs and flowers is intended to ap- 

 ply to the composition of every part of the place. The 

 illustration showing a boundary fence on the estate of 

 Muskau is intended to explain how the trees and shrubs 

 should be massed along the boundaries. The fence is 

 made of wood and on that account is not altogether 

 to be commended. Otherwise, the irregularity of the 

 height of the pickets gives it an attractive appearance. 

 Carrying out the same idea, the base, outside of the 

 fence bordering the sidewalk, should be planted with 

 flowers, irises, the larger sedums, saxifrage, anemones, 

 phlox, and goldenrod, with here and there one shrub or 

 three; — groups of shrubs planted in odd numbers al- 

 ways compose better. The sidewalk, in a sense, 

 belongs to the public and therefore it would be unwise 

 to leave shrubs to be injured on the curb line; other- 

 wise the planting of shrub groups among the shade 

 trees that border the road would be desirable, because 



