72 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



of isolated trees and shrubs on the lawn beside 

 the plantation in order to interrupt the lines nat- 

 urally from all sides. These shrubberies are then 

 neither raked nor trimmed except where neces- 

 sary for their growth ; hence, they soon develop 

 into a thicket that gracefully bends over the lawn 

 without showing anywhere a sharply defined out- 

 line, just as bushes in the wild state grow and 

 shape themselves on the edge of a meadow. No 

 tender bedding flowers can be employed in this 

 way, since they demand continuous attention, 

 nor are they necessary, since the English climate 

 produces, besides the beautiful rhododendrons 

 and the many species of roses, a sufficient num- 

 ber of hardy perennial plants to give variety to 

 the plantation ; and the flowers are massed in 

 the flower gardens where regularity is entirely 

 in order. For further explanation see Plate IV, 

 where the sketch e shows the border plantations 

 in the old style, andy] Mr. Nash's method. 



In our climate and less productive soil, where 

 even the commonest varieties of roses suffer from 

 cold or are quite destroyed by the frost, a middle 

 course must be found, since we can hardly pro- 

 duce ornamental shrubberies without resorting to 

 herbaceous plants and annuals. For a long time, 

 therefore, I have managed in general my planta- 

 tions in the same way that Mr. Nash has done, 

 while leaving, here and there in the shrubberies, 

 places prepared for hardy herbaceous plants, 

 which, though ugly in the early spring, are 

 bright with color in summer and autumn, our 



