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should be avoided. The line where lawn and border meet 

 should be a series of graceful curves, and the shrubs and 

 herbaceous plants should be arranged in irregular groups. 

 In this, one can have no better guide than Nature herself, 

 and a visit to the bushy margins of an old field or the edge 

 of a woodland will be of great assistance to the observant 

 student. In making the outline of the border a stout rope 

 or the garden hose may be used to get the desired curved 

 effect, and the line can then be marked out along this. 



Arrangement of the plants. Trees, shrubs, vines, and her- 

 baceous plants may all find appropriate locations in the border. 



FIG. 147. The wrong way to 

 plant shrubs on a lawn 



Such an arrangement makes a 

 spotty appearance 



FIG. 148. The correct way to 

 plant a lawn 



Shrubs arranged on the borders; 

 center of the lawn kept open 



The trees and shrubs are used to form the framework of the 

 plan, and the less rugged and assertive plants are grouped 

 about them. In arranging them care must be taken that the 

 taller specimens do not shut out the view from the windows 

 and veranda of the house. In large grounds, especially, vistas 

 to distant points in many directions should be maintained. 

 Grounds that have been planted for some time often have 

 these views obscured by an undue growth of shrubbery un- 

 less it is properly trimmed. On the other hand, undesirable 

 views or unsightly objects can be entirely concealed from 



