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ground, and the broken, inner, shaded Hne immediately 

 behind it indicating the kind of shape which the trees and 

 shrubs would take, in their front lines, when fully grown. 



Instead, therefore, of the outside plants in a mass following 

 impUcitly the hues by which it is defined on the ground, they 

 should stand forward or recede in the most irregular fashion, 

 approaching nearest to the front of the bed at the prominent 

 parts, and towards the middle or one of the sides of the 

 recesses, but retiring a good deal in other places, and espe- 

 cially in those portions of the recesses on either side of the 



Fig. 47. Proper Form for Border Planting. 



advanced specimens just named. In addition to this, and to 

 heighten the variety of outhne still more, the larger growing 

 things, and such as will spread forward most on the grass, 

 may be put here and there along the very front rank of plants, 

 the smallest growing kinds being kept among such as are 

 planted farthest back. Thus, when the border comes to be 

 turfed over, if ever it should be so covered, the edges of the 

 mass will be as broken, yet as softly rounded and blended, 

 as those of a natural thicket; and should the front of the 

 border be retained for flowers, the shrubs will still produce 



