126 FLOWER GARDENING 



shrubberies, strive to get the successive effects with 

 only one or two species of shrubs. No mixed 

 bloom can begin to make the picture that is cre- 

 ated by a massing of Spiraea van Houttei or pink 

 weigela alone, or laburnum and purple lilacs to- 

 gether. Clashing shrubs need not be discarded if 

 the place is of any size; there is always room for 

 more somewhere. 



Do not mass all of the shrubs. Now and then 

 isolate one and let it give full play to individuality 

 as expressed in its natural form. If inclined to 

 primness, let it be prim; if rambling, let it ramble. 

 This not merely for specimens in the garden or 

 on the lawn, but one standing out in blooming 

 time from a shrubbery background. A shrub that 

 has a great burst of bloom a magnolia, flame 

 azalea, rhododendron, Hydrangea paniculata, for- 

 sythia, Spiraea van Houttei, Dentzia corymbiflora, 

 double Philadelphus coronarius (Boule d' Argent) 

 double white lilac (Madame Casimir Perier), 

 weigela or any of the double-flowered fruit trees 

 if thus left to itself, will be an annual spectacle, 

 growing in beauty with the fullness of age. 



In some cases old wood will have to be removed, 

 but keep the pruning down to the appearance of 

 there not being any. There is always a tendency 

 to over-prune shrubs. Where sheer form of a 

 restrained artificial character is desired, there are 

 shrubs trained in standard, or tree, shape to be 

 had. For the lawn this shape has an advantage in 

 that the grass does not suffer beneath it The lilac, 



