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Landscape Gardening 



8. The Winter Garden. — By no means widely removed 

 from the pinetum in character and purpose would be the 

 winter garden. In reality, as conifers are almost invariably 

 evergreen an assemblage of them such as I have just described 

 would in itself compose a winter garden of a particular kind. 

 And in a similar situation a quantity of ornamental shrubby 



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Fig. SQ. The Arrangement of a Collection. 



evergreens might be gathered together so as to constitute a 

 very effective specimen of the irregular winter garden. 



But the more usual or acknowledged appHcation of the 

 name "winter garden" would be to a plot that is arranged 

 in a purely regular manner with the beds cut into quaint or 

 at least formal figures, and the shrubs for these beds selected 



