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restricted to limited portions of the grounds. If for any reason it 

 seems desirable to use a certain shrub only in one particular clump, 

 this clump can be made to appear to belong to the rest of the plant- 

 ing by including in that mass a specimen or two of the shrubs pre- 

 dominating in the adjoining groups. Most clumps need plants of 

 different heights, the taller ones at the back, the shorter in front, 

 and plants of any height may be used for " tying " them together. 

 More than one height of plant may often be used for this purpose. 



The kind of plants to use is of less importance than their location 

 upon the grounds. In all sections of the country there is native 



FIG. 64. A handsome native shrub, the elder. It grows nearly everywhere in the 



United States. 



material that is more desirable for local planting than most of 

 the plants brought from other places. The more trying the condi- 

 tions for plant growth, the more important it is to secure native 

 species and stock of the commoner things that have been grown from 

 seeds or plants gathered near home. There is wild material in every 

 neighborhood that is more suitable for planting in that locality 

 than nine-tenths of the plants described in the catalogues. This is 

 as true of the dry-land country just east of the Rockies and the 

 semiarid regions of the Southwest as of the more moist regions. 

 Search along the streams, on the hillsides, on the plains, in the 



