Lack of 

 material. 



A sketch in 

 shrubs. 



The Rescue of an Old Place 



articles we have carefully studied on this 

 topic presuppose a great number of bushes 

 of one kind to begin with, and where you 

 have perhaps three Golden Spiraeas, and 

 a half dozen Lilac bushes, and a hardy 

 Hydrangea or two. and a few Deutzias, 

 and Weigelias, and other heterogeneous 

 things in variety, the question is to set 

 them so that they will produce the effect 

 of twenty-five of each. We have managed 

 it so that really the shrubbery appears 

 rather crowded, but it has been done in a 

 manner to horrify the authorities. 



We have treated our landscape very 

 much as a painter would his canvas. We 

 dab in a shrub where we think it will pro- 

 duce the effect of half a dozen, and if, 

 after a few months, the picture seems to 

 require its removal, out it is scratched, 

 and set in another spot, and thus, in true 

 amateur fashion, we feel our way toward 

 a final result, for we find things never 

 look when they are little as they do when 

 they are fairly grown, the usual experi- 

 ence of amateur gardeners. 



The best that can be said for this 

 method is, that the results are unconven- 

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