CHAPTER XV. 



ORNAMENTAL PLANTING. 



IN ornamental planting one of the principal things to bear 

 in mind is to allow sufficient space for each of the per- 

 manent standards to develop its true and natural character. 

 Instead, therefore, of planting .ndiscriminately and in a 

 haphazard way, as, unfortunately, is so often done, have a 

 fixed idea, and only plant on a regular and well-matured 

 plan. Shou'i the individual standards be considered stiff or 

 unsightly for tne first few years, a good plan is to fill up 

 between with smaU-growing trees and shrubs, these for 

 lemoval as necessity demands, but always before damage to 

 the permanent specimens, by too close contact, has been 

 brought about. The habit of the tree and the size to which 

 it will ultimately attain are points that should never be 

 lost sight of in ornamental planting. Far too often the 

 mistake is made of planting specimen trees near roads 

 and buildings, or, quite as bad, too closely to each other. 

 This is a most unfortunate mistake, as it sooner or later 

 necessitates the sacrifice of specimens when their full beauty 

 is probably developed. 



In the case of both hardwooded and coniferous, the latter 

 in particular, the trees are planted when young and small, 

 and ample room is supposed to be given to them ; but, as 

 they grow up and near perfect development, the spread of 

 branches soon points out that a great mistake had been made 

 in the space of ground allotted, and that the ultimate size 

 to which the particular specimen would attain had never, at 

 the time of planting, been duly considered. There is little 



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