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would liave to be made lier(> and tlicr(\ In the case of 

 young slirubberies it is, of course, necessary at first to keep 

 the surface open for a while until the shrubs have taken hold 

 of the ground ; then the interesting colonics to which we 

 alluded may he planted. 



An essential thing is to abolish ntterlv the old dotting 



Colony of the Snowdrop-Anemone in Shrubbery not dug. Anemone taking 

 the place of weeds or bare earth. 



principle of the mixed border, as always ugly and always bad 

 from a cultural point of view. Instead of sticking a number 

 of things in one place, with many labels, and graduating them 

 from the back to the front, so as to secure the stiffest imagin- 

 able kind of arrangement, the true way is to have in each 

 space wide colonies or groups of one kind, or more than one 



