86 Grouping anfc flDassing of Zvccs anC> Sbrubs. 



The delicate work of properly arranging trees and shrubs 

 — the most severe trial of the designer's knowledge and 

 ability — must never be neglected or left to chance or acci- 

 dent. Complete detail plans should be furnished as guides 

 to planting, with the positions marked and the name of each 

 species appended. Afterwards it is important that the 

 place of each plant be properly located on the ground and 

 marked by means of labelled sticks or stakes. 



If this preliminary work is completed, the ground having 

 been previously dug or subsoiled, the planting may take 

 place either in the fall, if the weather is good and the soil 



FIG. 49.— GROUP AND SPECIMEN SHRUBS NEAR A WALK. 



is sufficiently moist, or very early in spring as soon as the 

 frost has left the ground and the soil is in a workable con- 

 dition. If the planting is left till spring, the holes may never- 

 theless be dug during the autumn or winter; they should 

 be made considerably larger and deeper than is actually 

 necessary. The frost will have a most beneficial and disin- 

 tegrating effect on the soil ; it will be light and friable 

 during the earliest dry weather in spring, and will fall with 

 greater ease around the tender roots of the plant. 



On receiving shrubs and trees the roots should be ex- 

 amined, and all broken or mutilated pails must be cut clean 



