CHAPTER VIII 

 THE BEST SHRUBS TO PLANT 



As regards choice of town shrubs one must 

 be guided greatly by the particular district 

 in which planting is to be engaged, and it 

 should be distinctly understood that all those 

 recommended in the following notes will not 

 succeed equally well in every part of London. 

 Thus it would be unwise, in the worst smoke- 

 infested areas, to plant several species that 

 are well known to give satisfaction in the 

 more open parts where the air is compara- 

 tively pure, and the further we recede from 

 smoke and other atmospheric impurities, so 

 the number of suitable species increases. 

 With wall shrubs the Ivy, Ampelopsis, and 

 Vine are by far the best and are planted in 

 numbers, but in more favoured situations 



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