CHAPTER XII 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, CLIMBING VINES, AND 

 HEDGE PLANTS 



Flowering shrubs and those with briUiantly colored 

 foliage are to ornamental gardening what the finishing 



Fig. 1 1 8. —Author's Weed Killers. 



touches are to the picture or the varnishing is to furniture. 

 They help to fill out the well-rounded forms of groups of 

 trees and, possessing more variety of colors of flowers and 

 foliage than the large trees, they add beautiful bits of color 



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