WHERE TO PLANT WHAT 



shrubbery our gardening can be more lenient 

 than with annuals alone, or with only herbaceous 

 plants and evergreens. 



So, then, our problem. Where to Plant What, 

 may become for a moment. Where to Plant 

 Shrubbery; and the response of the free-line gar- 

 den will be, of course, "Remember, concerning 

 each separate shrub, that he or she — or it, if 

 you really 'prefer the neuter — is your guest, and 

 plant him or her or it where it will best enjoy 

 itself, while promoting the whole company's 

 joy." Before it has arrived in the garden, 

 therefore, learn — and carefully consider — its 

 hkes and dislikes, habits, manners and accom- 

 plishments and its friendly or possibly un- 

 friendly relations with your other guests. This 

 done, determine between whom and whom you 

 will seat it; between what and what you will 

 plant it, that is, so as to "draw it out,'* as we 

 say of diffident or reticent persons; or to use it 

 for drawing out others of less social address. 

 But how many a lovely shrub has arrived where 

 it was urgently invited, and found that its host 

 or hostess, or both, had actually forgotten its 



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