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Under B the taller trees and shrubs must be in the rear, 

 and the whole growth shaded down in solid mass to the 

 ground in front, where borders of flowers may be planted. 

 These borders may swing out in curves into the lawn. 



Under C the requirements are that there shall be few 

 straight lines in the natural landscape planting. If the walks 

 are long enough, they should gently curve, and shrub masses 

 may be planted in these curves. The trees and shrubs should 

 not be in straight rows, but in masses and groups curving 

 naturally into the lawn. The angles formed by the buildings 

 and ground should be broken by shrubs and flower borders. 



Materials to use in planting. There is little excuse for 

 country home and school grounds being barren and unplanted 

 when they stand in the midst of such a wealth of nature's 

 materials for making them beautiful. Fortunately nature has 

 aided the indolent and indifferent man in many cases by 

 growing the trees and shrubs in abundance about his home 

 grounds. Where such is the case he ought to be enjoined 

 from cutting them down except to shape their arrangement 

 in harmony with correct principles of landscape art. Where 

 the native wild shrubs and trees grow naturally on home 

 or school grounds, they should certainly be left, with proper 

 arrangement and care, of course. Such native trees as the 

 maple, the linden, the ash, the elm, the poplar, the dogwood, 

 the horse-chestnut, and many others, and such shrubs as the 

 wild hydrangea, the azalea, the spice-bush, the sumac, the 

 high bush cranberry, the viburnum, the chokecherry, and the 

 elder, may be successfully transplanted from the forests and 

 fields to the home and school grounds. 



