EMBELLISHMENT OF SHRUBBERY BORDERS. 



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straight along, perhaps with a tile edging. Well, the right 

 way is to have a broken margin, to let the shrubs run in and 

 out themselves, and let tliem form tlie margin; let them 

 come to the ground in fact, not stitiiy, and here and there 

 growing right outside the ordinary bcjundary, in a little group. 

 Throw away altogether the crowded masses of starved pri^■et 

 and pruned laurel, and let the turf pass right under a group 

 of fine trees where such are found. This turf itself might be 

 dotted in spring Avith snowdrops and early flowers ; nothing, 

 in fact, would be easier than for any intelligent person, who 

 knew and cared for trees and shrubs, to chano'e the monotonous 

 wall of .shrul)bery into tlie most delightful of open-air gardens ; 

 abounding in beautiful life, from the red tassels on the top- 

 most maples to flowers in the grass for children. 



Colony of the Summer SnowHake, on margin of shrubbery. 



