five] lawns and shrubberies 



try to follow nature's methods. (1) Rows are al- 

 ways to be avoided, except for windbreaks, and for 

 bordering straight drives. (2) Shrubs that have 

 poor outlines when standing alone should be group- 

 ed. (3) Do not repeat the same effect in your 

 grouping, but seek variety. (4) Each group of 

 shrubs should bring out, if possible, a succession of 

 bloom. (5) Low-growing shrubs should stand in 

 front of the taller. (6) Avoid fancy grouping and 

 geometrical outlines. (7) Walks should not go 

 anywhere or nowhere, but somewhere; and if they 

 bend they should be bent around something. (8) 

 When you get through planting, the effect should be 

 that all parts fit together — as the parts of a group 

 create a single whole. Your shrubbery and your 

 lawn should not be so individualized as not to fit 

 together, and then bear no natural association 

 with your gardens and orchards. 



The aim of this book is everywhere to steer clear 

 of pettiness and small local effects, in favor of gen- 

 eral and unified beauty and utility. For this reas- 

 on we have nothing but disapproval for those lawns 

 that involve fussiness and cost, and therefore are 

 without adequate compensation. We should not 

 indulge in little show lawns or in trifling lawns, 



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