The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



quite noticeable results the second season, while 

 others need two or three years' growth even to 

 indicate what their ultimate beauty will be. 



The location, too, will have much to do with re- 

 sults. For a low planting about the foundation 

 of the house, in front of porches or to top low ter- 

 races many plants may be employed which would 

 be unsatisfactory in places at a distance where 

 a general effect is desired more than an intimate 

 relation. For masking a building, hiding an un- 

 desirable view and the like, tall-growing shrubs 

 and flowering trees are usually preferred and 

 these being of more or less slow growth require 

 time to develop. 



In all shrubbery planting it will be found that 

 a number of plants of one sort is far more ef- 

 fective than one or two plants each of many dis- 

 tinct kinds. The mistake is often made of plant- 

 ing only shrubs which bloom together, producing 

 a medley of more or less inharmonious colors and 

 form for a few weeks in spring leaving the shrub- 

 bery bare and uninteresting for the remainder of 

 the year. This is a mistake I have often made 



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