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Perennial plants need treatment in the scheme of 

 the landscape gardener in the same general way as trees 

 and shrubs, both deciduous and evergreen. They 

 play a subordinate part, though a no less attractive one 

 in the scheme. They should stand apart in colonies or 

 in clusters at the feet of the shrubs and even of the 

 trees; they should carpet the glades and borders of 

 the shrub groups with trilliums and anemones, and 

 even snowdrops in protected nooks. The iris and the 

 daffodil and the water-lilies all have their places, one 

 in the moist edge of the stream, the other a little higher 

 up, and the last in two feet of water. There is always 

 a way to associate them happily with their larger but 

 not more beautiful companions, the trees and shrubs. 

 This association is really necessary for the fullest de- 

 velopment of the beauty of the perennial wild flower. 



Of the annuals and the bedding and tropical plants 

 nearly as good words can be said, for each in its way is 

 just as beautiful and valuable as the other, provided it is 

 set in its own appointed place, as designated by nature 

 when her secrets have been revealed to the man who 

 makes the landscape. In the chapter on Gardens is an 

 illustration showing how this bedding should be man- 

 aged and fitted into a natural scheme of this kind of 

 planting, and so we leave the problem of bedding for 

 each one to work out for himself, finding it on the 

 whole one of the most difficult and perhaps most 

 fascinating of any within the range of landscape garden- 

 ing. 



It has already been pointed out that the vegetation 



