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or diamond formed, or made from the shape of an oak or 

 maple leaf. Studying the subject quietly, and then in 

 preparing the bed make it four to six inches higher in the 

 center, and planting the strongest growing plants and 

 deepest colored flowers in the center, toning out to the 

 border with low growing light colored flowers. 



Again we will suggest that we make groups of Hardy 

 Deciduous Flowering Shrubs. Suppose our border be 

 oblong in form along the foot-path, or breaking the form 

 of a carriage road, let us use varieties of Altheas for the 

 -center, surround them with varieties of Wiegelas ; then 

 again a belt of tree or upright Honeysuckles, then with 

 Lilacs mingled with the shrubby Hydrangeas, then here 

 and there a purple Magnolia and two or three varieties of 

 the Japan Quince; now two or three of Syrengas, and 

 then bound the whole with Spireas, Calycanthus and 

 Deutzias. 



So much for a group of Hardy Flowering Shrubs. Now 

 suppose we take a long oval bed of twenty by forty feet, 

 .and count it a break from the front lawn, overlooked by 

 the windows and porches in front of the house. Suppose 

 we plant at each end of the oval a Juniperus, prostrata 

 densata nana, repent, Squamata, Sabina alpina and Nipar- 

 tita : next back of them, or if you will, intermingled by one 

 who knows of their growth, Sabina Tamariscifolia, Sabina 

 variagata, Chinensis oblonga pendula , recuma, densa, Ree- 

 vesii Rigila, Thurifera, Virginiana Pendula ; and next in 

 back of the foregoing to fill up the center, fore and back 

 ground Abies Excelsa Inverta, A. Excelsa Mucronata, 

 A. Excelsa Pygmcea, A . canadensis , A. canadensis nana, 



