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How to Make a Flower Garden 



sure that they should not be scattered here and there. They show to 

 best advantage against a background of foliage. The best effects usually 



are secured when they are 

 planted in front of heavy 

 shrub -masses. They then 

 have some connection with 

 the construction lines of 

 the place, and they are far 

 enough removed from the 

 other shrubs to allow them 

 to develop into their full in- 

 dividuality. A long, sweep- 

 ing line of them against a 

 flowing background of taller 

 and heavier growth also 

 comports well, particularly 

 if the place is somewhat 

 florid in its character. It is 

 always well, with whatever 

 plant, to avoid the isolated, 

 unrelated, single specimen in 

 the middle of a greensward. 

 Note how emphatic are the 

 plants of sumac and mock- 

 orange in the illustrations on pages 74 and 75, because they have a background 



Azalea amoena, forming the terminus of a line of shrubbery 



