IV. 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



AVING considered the flowering trees which 

 are most useful in the hand of the landscape- 

 gardener we have become more familiar with 

 their habit, habitat, and use in gardening. It 

 now remains to make a choice selection of 

 flowering shrubs of a nature that will please and satisfy all. 

 Flowering shrubs are very numerous and, as they are all 

 more or less beautiful, it is a somewhat difficult task to 

 make a selection within the proper limit. 



Shrubs should not be used so much by themselves, in 

 separate groups and masses, as in combination with flower- 

 ing trees and other forms of vegetation, in rounding off and 

 finishing larger masses of trees, in making detached groups 

 and single specimens on the outskirts of such masses. 

 Many too, may be used as an undergrowth in plantations 

 of deciduous trees; especially evergreen shrubs, such as 

 mahonias, kalmias, rhododendrons, holly, and similar forms ; 

 others to give a touch of higher color to groups of evergreen 

 trees, and more sparingly in larger masses, if there are 



secluded lawns hemmed in by coniferous trees only. On 



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