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with the brilliant scarlet of the quince flowers, both 

 coming in together. Beautiful effects spring from com- 

 bining differently tinted species and varieties of the same 

 genus, for instance: the light and dark Spruces, Pines, 

 and others, may be contrasted with one another, and so 

 on with other different kinds indelinitely. 



In the matter of general style and location of groups, 

 it is obvious, as we consider the importance of retaining 

 certain open stretches of lawn, that as a rule the masses 

 must, in all small places, be set along the margins of the 

 grass plat, keeping the center open. 



But such arrangements correspond in principle with 

 nature's most effective groupings. The most delightful 



Fig. 31. — ARRANGEMENT OF TREES, SHRUBS, AND FLOWERS, THB 

 LETTERS INDICATING THE KINDS. 



natural landscapes show open vistas, skirted by margins 

 of woody growth, either near or distant, which limit and 

 support the former. On the laying out of marginal 

 borders, some attention has been given in Chapter XV, 

 as illustrated by figures 13 to 18. 



Figure 31, illustrating a section of such a border, 

 shows the method of arranging the different materials. 

 In this figure it may be noticed that the outside line of 

 woody growths is less regular than that of the border 



