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carriage turn-arounds, and along the edges of groups of taller 

 evergreens on the lawn. 



A mixture of incongruous growths is apt to be the worst 

 mistake of the tyro who choses the novelties of the nurseryman s 

 catalogue so beguilingly described and then tries to reconcile the 

 trees to the requirements of his place. Very rarely does he think 

 of reversing the operation. After the experienced landscape 

 gardener has drawn to scale a plan of the area to be beautified, he 

 makes an inventory of what nature offers in the region, not only 

 because the native trees will thrive best, but because they most 

 fittingly tie a new place to the surrounding landscape, making it an 

 integral part of the region at once. These will be the first on his 

 list when he visits nurseries to select and tag stock. But not a 

 tree will be ordered whose place is not already assigned on his 

 drawn and redrawn plan. It is so much easier to rectify mistakes, 

 and so much less expensive to shift tree belts, hedges, screens, 

 masses of trees and fine isolated specimens on paper than with 

 gangs of Italians and big tree-movers. The knowledgeable gar 

 dener with taste, who plants trees with a careful consideration for 

 each of soil, situation, and climate, is an indispensable economy to 

 the inexperienced patron. Even comfortably poor people cannot 

 well afford not to consult him if they did but realise their own 

 limitations and his worth. 



For formal touches, no other hardy evergreens will reproduce 

 in this country the effect of the Italian cypress so well as the red 

 juniper, or so-called cedar (Juniperus Virginiana\ and the artist- 

 gardener uses hedges, screens, and arches of it as well as the tall, 

 tapering, spire-like specimens that pierce the sky. In another 

 locality the columnar arborvitae, the true white cedar of the 

 Northern States (Thuya occidentalism var. pyramidalis), might serve 



