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less — and it holds its bronzy leaves persistently even against 

 wind and snow and frost. So, for prompt results, and cheaper, 

 it is very satisfactory indeed. Even without a leaf upon its 

 branches an old privet hedge that has been properly trimmed, is 

 so twiggy that it very effectually hides the thing beyond it. 



Where there is room enough a thick planting of arborvitae, 

 hemlock, spruce, or cedar, left untrimmed to form a natural back- 

 groimd for a border of flowering shrubs, cannot be improved 

 upon. Shrubs having ornamental fruits or highly colored winter 

 bark may be chosen, and will add to the winter beauty of the 

 group. For screens to be placed at a distance, on a place of 

 considerable size, I should always recommend conifers as the 

 dominant note, with deciduous trees beyond in as natural and 

 forest-like relation as possible. 



Whatever the thing may be that mars the outlook from within 

 a dwelling or offends the eye at any point of the surrounding 

 grovmds, let me urge that something be done to annihilate it 

 promptly. There is no necessity for contemplating a neighbor's 

 chicken yard from the library windows, nor for tolerating a 

 view of his tool house or wood pile from the front gate. A 

 little contriving will find a way to hide them. Similarly, even 

 remote objects may be blotted from the landscape, if not in 

 one way then in another — for what a bush will not hide a pine 

 tree will. 



The reverse process, whereby the outer world is included in 

 one's private grounds or garden — the " planting in" process — is 

 obviously not altogether that, Hterally. Rather is it a great 

 deal more than that, for the term applies of course to any 

 arrangement which brings an object or a view — usually the latter 

 — into the general scheme of a place, even though it is miles 

 distant from it. 



