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planting by a circumscribing wall, they are rarely 

 lost altogether from view. No matter how plainly 

 defined, what it is so pleasant to call the garden 

 is no more all the garden, in the broadest sense, 

 than the section of a city that is built up solid 

 is all of that city. As the city rambles suburban- 

 ward, so the garden spreads and spreads, until the 

 ends thereof are the boundaries of the home site. 

 Shrubs are not the only factors in this garden ex- 

 tension, but the flowering ones are the dominant 

 denotive figures. A shrub in the garden, or by the 

 side of it, a few more near the house and a small 

 border of them in one corner of the grounds 

 there you have the simplest sort of a garden chain; 

 yet one binding together the parts of a small place. 

 Shrubs, in short, are prime material for the mak- 

 ing of the piers of the imaginary garden bridges 

 that every place, whether large or small, needs. 



A great English estate, such as Witley Court, 

 the main portion of which stretches out into ten 

 thousand acres, shows how little size has to do 

 with the expression of the thought. May is two- 

 thirds over and the garden of gardens, that the 

 stately mansion looks out upon, is aglow with rho- 

 dodendrons. But in every direction flowering 

 shrubs are beckoning, as if to remind you that 

 there is more to the garden than that. Whichever 

 way you turn there are links with the garden; 

 some of them bind it to other gardens, and then 

 away again. In one direction you are soon in 

 the woods, but along the broad shaded path are 



