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here and there, quite well out into the lawn, if 

 the latter is spacious; but the shrubbery mass 

 must not, except in so far as the undulations of 

 its foreline, determined in plan when the design 

 is made, carry it. This foreline or meeting line 

 of shrubbery and lawn is most successful when 

 its likeness to a rugged shore line is closest, the 

 water being represented by the lawn while the 

 shrubbery mass corresponds to the land. In- 

 lets and promontories mark such a shore, and 

 lawn "inlets" and shrub "promontories" are ex- 

 actly the effect most desired and desirable in 

 shrubbery planting. Study the conformation of 

 such a bank; here and there are gentle slopes 

 down to the water's edge. These will be suc- 

 cessfully reproduced by low-growing and almost 

 prostrate shrubs, planted in the fore of the taller 

 varieties. Elsewhere, masses sometimes detach 

 themselves and tumble down and out a bit from 

 the parent headland. Here is the guide which 

 shows how detached specimens may be planted 

 at the prominent parts of the border — of which 

 there should be only a very few, however. 



It is distinctly apparent that this sort of thing 

 cannot be carried out, except on a very limited 

 scale, within the fifty by one hundred foot plot, 

 if anything else is to find room in the garden. 

 True, a very pleasing border of shrubbery is pos- 



