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appropriated to gardening purposes. With regard to small places in 

 thickly populated neighborhoods this should be the first consideration. 

 The place will thus be made to look larger and the house can be partly 

 surrounded by a somewhat open lawn, which will be distinctly defined 

 and fringed by the border of shrubs. In grounds of greater extent 

 shelter and protection, both to plants and animals, will be largely se- 

 cured by thickly set evergreen trees on the most exposed quarters. 

 Distinctiveness of arrangement will also necessitate the formation of a 

 well-marked division between the garden, the lawn, and the open fields 

 beyond, and here a continuous belting of foliage will serve to render 

 the boundary line more pleasing if not less conspicuous. 



Much of the efficiency as well as the beauty of this boundary belt 

 will depend upon the form of its ground plan, as well as upon its sky 

 outline, which is a curving line, widening and narrowing at certain 

 points, as heavy masses of planting may be made to hide deformities 

 or openings left through which to view the distant scenery. In arrang- 

 ing openings it is not necessary to arrest the continuous line of shrub- 

 bery. This can be maintained by using very low growing plants oppo- 

 site to the selected openings. This will further have the effect of 

 varying the sky outline both by elevation and perspective. The pro- 

 jecting points giving space for larger growing plants, will enhance va- 

 riety in sky outline. These occasional masses of heavier plantings 

 produce a pleasing variety of effect when contrasted with open spaces 

 of lawn and groups of low-growing shrubbery. 



The selection of the species and varieties, as well as the disposition 

 of plants in a marginal border, requires skill and forethought. The 

 proper gradation of heights, the contrasting and harmonizing of forms 

 and colorings of foliage and flowers, and the general adaptation of the 

 whole to the extent of grounds and to the requirements of the archi- 

 tectural and other improvements, will influence, to a certain degree, 

 both the selection and disposition of the plants. 



Where the grounds are so extensive as to admit of a plantation belt, 

 varying in width from 50 to 200 feet, thus affording space for the growth 

 of the largest trees, the selection of sorts will be less difficult than 

 where the space limits the border to a maximum breadth of 50 feet. 

 The following list includes some of the best trees of the smallest size, 

 suitable to small grounds: 



Acer campestre. Laburnum vulgare. 



Acer Pennsylvanicum. Madura aurantiaca. 

 Amelanchier Canadensis, var. ~botryapium. Magnolia conspicua. 



Aralia spinosa. Magnolia glauca. 



Carpinua betulus. Paliurus aculeatus. 



Cercis Canadensis. Prunus mahaleb. 



Chionanthus Virginica. Prunus padus. 



Cornus florida. Ptelea trifoliata. 



Elcoagnus angustifolia. Pyrus aucuparia. 



Fraxinus viridis. Pyrus coronaria. 



Halcsia tetraptera. Shephcrdia argentea. 



Hamamelis Virginica. Sophora Japonica. 

 Kcelreuteria paniculata. 



