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ing tints, attention must be constant to realise the form of the tree 

 as well as the colour of its foliage, or the trees may carelessly be 

 so arranged as to present the appearance of strips one beyond 

 another. The group should rather be divided into considerable 

 portions, each of a rounded figure, to be filled in with plants that 

 will give the various tints required, and are of the necessary height. 

 Contrasting tints, such as dark and light greens, coming together in 

 large masses of planting, break the surface, so to speak, on which 

 they meet. An outline which cannot for any reason be varied 

 sufficiently in form, may be diversified in appearance by clever 

 management of such shades. Every opposition of shade will vary a 

 continuous line. When a distinct hollow is apparent between two 

 clumps of trees, it is sometimes effective to plant the sides of each 

 group next the hollow with trees of similar kind, so as . to create 

 or suggest an idea that the groups have been separated by the 

 cause that made the hollow. 



In addition to the clumps of planting made for effect in a park, 

 there are to be considered those that are to have as well a further 

 use, namely, to afford cover for game. For the flight of a pheasant 

 these should be placed about 200 yds. apart. Among the trees 

 should be planted thickly Cotoneaster Simonsii, Rhododendron 

 ponticum, Scarlet Dogwood, Gorse, Broom, Black Thorn, Snowberry, 

 Berberis aquifolia, Sweet Briar, Box, Privet, Elder, etc. An example 

 is given showing the arrangement of trees and shrubs in outlying 

 park plantations (see Plan). 



In planting a villa garden there is a different treatment to be 

 observed from the stocking of a large place. In the small garden it is 

 generally necessary to secure an immediate effect; with an expression 

 of completeness that shall appear in winter as well as summer. 

 Shrubs that are of dwarf habit or of slow growth, if purchased of 

 sufficient size to break the monotony of low planting, are generally 



