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chooses. Plants have their freaks and peculiarities in 

 different positions, which even practical experience can 

 scarcely foresee. 



Beware of using on small places large-growing trees, and 

 even on the outer boundary employ them sparsely. All 

 such trees, like the Norway spruce or white pine, become 

 in a few years, independent of their crowding mass, more or 

 less unsightly for limited inclosures and necessarily close 

 inspection. There should be an exact proportion between 

 the size of a place and the eventual size say in ten years 

 of all plants used for ornamenting it. For this reason, the 

 rapid-growing, deciduous shrubs, with their wonderful 

 variety of foliage and flowers and their moderate growth, 

 are well adapted for small places. They not only attain 

 moderate size, but can be duly restrained for many years 

 by pruning. There are, also, many beautiful dwarf ever- 

 green trees and shrubs well suited for lawn-planting on a 

 small scale. Indeed, such plants may be kept, by pruning 

 both root and branches intelligently, within a height of 

 five feet for near a score of years. 



It seems almost absurd to say that ornamental plants in 

 their entire variety and special aptitudes for lawn-planting 

 should be carefully studied by the lawn-planter. Never- 

 theless, many so-called experts seem to lose sight of the 

 fact. With knowledge, however, and a cultivated taste, 

 most delightful results can be obtained on a small lot 

 by an outlay ranging from one hundred dollars to three 

 hundred dollars, depending on the amount of choice plants 

 used. Grading and fences are considerations governed 

 by special conditions, and cannot, therefore, be taken into 



