116 01? SHRUBS, SHRUBBERIES, &C. SECT. J3U 



and moist one. The more towering sorts must be 

 placed behind,, and the less so before them, gradually 

 declining to the low growing ones, m a sort of thea- 

 trical order : This is necessary in a shrubbery, and 

 indeed all plantations, but more so in the disposition 

 of plants in clumps^ keeping the centre high, and 

 falling gradually towards the edge. Thus the stems, 

 and naked parts of the higher plants are hid by those 

 before them, and; the whole appears to the eye a full 

 scene of verdure^ 



The season o shrubs flowering and leafing is a 

 material point to, provide ibr, by a proper distribu~ 

 tion, that there may be: a sprinkling of decoratiom 

 every month, Jn every part. And in this business, 

 aa equal mix tare of' the evergreen, and deciduous 

 sorts, is necessary to be observed. See Sect, 1$. 



As to the proportion of this mixture, it will de- 

 pend upon taste, and; tlmopportunity of ^procuring 

 the one sort,' or the othF;; but the circumstance 

 may direct (in a measure) ^heiher the plantation of 

 shrubs be about the house,, or at a distance from it 

 In the former case, more evergreens should be made 

 use of, as in sight in winter : generally, speaking, 

 perhaps, one evergreen,, and two deciduous shrubsy 

 er one and three may form an agreeable shrubbery 

 at all times. 



A regularity in planting shrubs is not necessary 

 as to lines, but is rather to be avoided, except just 

 in the front, where there should always be some low 

 ones, and- a border for flowers? chiefly of the spring, 

 as summer ones are apt to be drawn up weak, if the 

 shrubbery walks are not very wide, The flowers* 

 should be of the lowest growth, and rather bulbous* 

 rooted. Towards the edge may be planted aconites, 

 snow-drops, crocusses, primroses, violets, polyanthuses? 

 hepaticas, wood anemonies, daffodils, cowslips, Sec. I 

 pea shrubberies an edging of strawberries is propei> 



