CHAPTER III. SHRUBS AND SHRUBBERY 



I. Shrubs and Where to Put Them 



By L. H. Bailey 



HE growth of the appreciation of shrubbery is one of the 

 significant notes of the time. Every one Hkes trees and is 

 wilhng to plant them, but the regard for shrubs seems to 

 be a later development. This is well illustrated in many 

 of the fine old estates, in which there are trees of magni- 

 ficent proportions but a great dearth of plants of lower 

 growth. This former lack of appreciation of shrubbery is all the more 

 smgular from the fact that the beauty of our common native landscapes 

 often depends quite as much on the shrubs as on the trees. I suppose that 

 the mere smallness of the shrubs causes them to appear to be trivial and 

 little worth the while. We have undergone a similar evolution in fruit- 



Clump of one of the wild roses, showing good shrub-effects as well as good bloom 



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