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growers are privet, spirea, mock orange, hydrangea, golden bells, 

 deutzias, red-twigged dogwood anything you can buy in the 

 form of one or two-year-old plants at eight dollars to twenty 

 dollars a hundred. This is the stuff that will attain the height 

 of a man in three or four years. The reason you can buy it so 

 cheaply is that it can all be easily raised from cuttings; whereas 

 the costly shrubs have to be propagated by slow methods, such as 

 grafting, layering, or seeds. 



The quick-growers are to go in the back and the slow- 

 growers in the front of the border. Typical slow-growers are lilacs, 

 Japanese maple, white fringe, pearl bush, Japanese red bud, dwarf 

 horse-chestnuts (plate 70), and azaleas (plate 73). These 

 cost about fifty cents each or more. 



Now draw the foundation line of your house and indicate all 

 the most important windows, because we want a beautiful picture 

 from each window and each view is to be strikingly different from 

 every other. Nearly all the foundation line should be hidden and 

 the ideal material for banking against a house is broad-leaved 

 evergreens. Consider this material first, as it is the costliest of all. 



Then take the view from each window in turn. Don't put 

 your big flower show opposite the most important window, because 

 flowers are short lived. Put a winter effect there, and be sure it 

 has good foliage in summer. Hold the list of eifects by months 

 in your hand and think how twelve bushes of each kind would 

 look from each window when the plants have grown to the height 

 of a man. Thus you will be sure of strong, simple mass effects 

 that are good to live with, not a weak, spotty, distracting mixture. 



Next indicate directly on the plan where the conifers or 

 other evergreens are to stand. You must do this now, because 

 your winter berries and branches will be much more effective if 



