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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



them for use as playground or for seats. In dealing with such trees we 

 must be unsparing in cutting off the lower boughs, which are rarely 

 of much use to the tree and often impede the air and movement 

 underneath ; they should be cut carefully to an airy but not hard 

 line. 



Wych Elm on Lawn at Oak Lodge, Kensington. 



Where the flower garden is small we may rightly object to much 

 shade in it, and must get as much as we can outside it. In many 

 cases in open lawn gardens, where we may pass easily from the flower 

 beds into grassy, open ground near, we may have delightful groups of 

 shade trees not far from the flowers, and this sort of garden, of which 



