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The system of building up the bulk of a border by plant- 

 ing in a series of triangles will be found a practical and 

 intelligible one. The different heights and habits of the 

 plants will prevent any stiffness. The same plan can be 

 adopted where the border has only one face, but with the 

 greater width available we can afford to plant a line of 

 common Laurels at the back for shelter if the site is an 

 exposed one, and although we may grudge them the room 

 they take up it will be earned by the greater success of the 

 choicer plants in front, which will do vastly better for the 

 protection they receive. We can also, if we wish, work 

 in small Conifers, which may be set opposite the bare 

 stems of the standard trees, and fresh angles found for 

 the shrubs. 



Let us call a border into being, built up on the plan 

 proposed. The width shall be fifteen feet, and the border 

 shall face two ways, say east and west. The trees and 

 Rose pillars, nine feet apart along the centre, shall be as 

 follows : (i) Double Scarlet Thorn, (2) Rose Alberic 

 Barbier, (3) Double Showy Apple (Pyrus spectabilis flore 

 pleno), (4) Rose Lady Gay, (5) Purple-leaved Plum 

 (Prunus Pissardii), (6) Rose Blush Rambler, (7) Double 

 White Thorn, (8) Rose Philadelphia Rambler, (9) Orna- 

 mental Crab, (10) Rose Leuchtstern, (n) Many-flowered 

 Apple (Pyrus Malus floribunda), (12) Rose Mrs. F. W. 

 Flight, (13) Scotch Laburnum, (14) Rose Dundee Rambler, 

 (15) Lilac. 



Nominally we have seven and a half feet of border on 

 each side for the shrubs and plants, but actually somewhat 

 less, as a little allowance must be made for the Roses, 

 in spite of the fact that they are tied to pillars. In a line 

 four feet from the centre we may plant our shrubs in 

 the following order : (i) Weigela, (2) Spiraea, (3) Mock 

 Orange, (4) Golden Ball (Forsythia), (5) Flowering 



