110 OF SHRUBS, SHRUBBERIES, &C SECT. IX. 



the ground, the lower parts and deeper foil will be more 

 fuitable to fome, and the higher and Shallower may do 

 very well ior others. 



Tender fhrubs mould not only be fheltered for 

 protection, but be planted in a dry fpot open to the fun: 

 Some things will live abroad in a dry and poor foil, 

 that would feldom furvive a winter in a rich and moift 

 one. The more towering forts muft be placed behind, 

 and the lefs fo before them, gradually declining to the 

 low growing ones, in a fort of theatrical order: This 

 is neceifary in difhrubbery, and indeed all plantations, 

 but more fo in the difpofition of plants in clumps, keep- 

 ing the center high, and falling gradually towards the 

 edge. Thus the Items, and naked parts of the higher 

 plants are hid by thofe before them, and the whole 

 appears to the eye a full fcene of verdure. 



The Jeajon of fhrubs flowering and leafing is a 

 material point to provide for, by a proper diilribution, 

 that there may be a fprinkling of decoration every 

 month, in every part. And in thisbufmefs, an equally 

 difperfed mixture of theevergreen, and deciduous forts, 

 is neceffary to be obferved. See Sccf. 1 9. 



As to the proportion of tins mixture, it will depend 

 upon tafte, and the opportunity of procuring the one 

 fort, or the other; but the circumilance may direct (in 

 a meafure) whether the plantation of fhrubs be about 

 the houje, or at a diftance from it. In the former cafe, 

 more evergreens mould be made ufe of, as in light in 

 winter: generally fpeaking, perhaps, one evergreen, 

 and two deciduous fhrubs, or one and three may form 

 an agreeable lhrubbery at all times. 

 . A regularity in planting fhrubs is not neccflary as to 

 lines, but is rather to be avoided, except juft in the 

 front, where there ihould always be fome low ones, 

 and a border {or flowers, chiefly of the fp ring, as ium- 

 mer ones are apt to be drawn up weak, if the (hrubbery 

 walks are not very wide. The flowers ihould be of 

 the loweft growth, and rather bulbous rooted. To- 

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