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FIG. 7. Shrub screen on 

 narrow space 



Aside from the planting directly beside a house, there is 

 many a situation in which shrubs take away the bareness. 



Here follows a suggestion for an empty corner by a stable or 

 a garage (Fig. 5, p. 135). The shrubs are: (1) flowering peach, 

 (2) rose of Sharon, (3) syringa, (4) snowball, (5) privet, (6) 



kerria, (7) Japanese 

 quince. These will give 

 something like a con- 

 tinuous performance 

 and, once planted, 

 give little trouble. 

 A very simple grouping of shrubs at a driveway entrance 

 improves it. Fig. 6, p. 135, shows Rugosa roses (1) and Berberis 

 vulgaris (2). Instead of the four Rugosa roses at the left side, 

 a single evergreen could be planted Oriental fir or hemlock. 

 When shrubs are grouped at the side of a rather narrow lot 

 a space perhaps only eight feet by twenty, there is little choice 

 in arrangement. One has to cut off the drying-ground at the 

 rear and to interpose a slight barrier between one's yard and 

 one's neighbor. (1) Azalea, (2) barberry, (3) evergreen thorn 

 are used. In front of the shrubs perennials could be "worked 

 in," phlox, foxgloves and 

 the like, or annuals. Com- 

 mon hawthorn or flowering 

 dogwood could be used in- 

 stead of the evergreen 

 thorn (Fig. 7). 



Without a few shrubs 

 the entrance has a bare, 

 unfinished look. Here 



FIG. 8. Shrubs at path entrance 



(Fig. 8) is a first-aid treatment at a path where grading has 

 been done. Besides the shrubs, bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) 



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