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The Landscape Gardening Book 



When circumstances force a choice between trees and a view, 

 and it is the only view, choose it every time — tmless there is 

 chance for an interloper to come between and steal it from you 

 at some future day. Settle this beyond all doubt. Never open 

 a vista that may end in an eye-sore some time, through a neigh- 

 bor's freak, or folly, or indifference. 



But do make as much of the world your own as you can, right 

 down to the rim. There is something none can afford to be 

 without in living with a horizon, either of land or sea, and trees 

 that hide it are cheating you. They are robbing you of soul 

 expansion that is rightfully yours. Condemn them and take 

 them out without compunction. Their room is better than their 

 company tmder such circumstances — though it may hurt to see 

 them go. 



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Planting of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs forming a screen group 

 two hundred feet long. 



Lists of Plants 



evergreen and deciduous trees in the screen group 



I — Pinus Strobus: white pine; one hundred feet high or more; 



adapts itself to any soil; the most beautiful of all native 



evergreen trees; care must be used in setting this out and 



