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by grouping masses of shrubs along the border. These 

 are to be placed so as to screen the walks from view 

 from the principal windows of the house, from the bal- 

 cony, veranda or bay windows, or from the roadway in 

 front of the house. If the place is small these groups 

 of shrubbery must be small, in some cases only a single 

 line of plants. Even hardy perennials will take off 

 some of the sterile appearance of this stretch of bare 

 soil in the midst of the living green of the lawn. 



Planting Trees and Shrubs. 



With the new house, the outside decorations are yet 

 to be grown, except what may by chance have been pre- 

 served from the roadside or hedge- rows, the treatment 

 of which has been discussed on preceding pages. A 

 home without more or less trees about the buildings and 

 grounds is a forlorn place, exposed to the full heat of 

 the sun in summer and storms and winds in the win- 

 ter. While newly planted trees and shrubs appear to 

 grow slowly to those waiting for their grateful shade it 

 is but a comparatively short time before they will give 

 an abundance of shade and shelter if planted at the 

 earliest possible time. 



WHERE TO OBTAIN ORNAMENTAL TREES 

 AND SHRUBS. 



No country in the world is richer in ornamental trees, 

 shrubs, and plants than ours, and some of the most 

 beautiful may be found growing by the roadsides or in 

 pastures and woods, and may be readily transplanted to 

 the house grounds. A large majority of the trees which 

 we see by the roadsides and along the avenues were 

 taken from these places. Trees of sufficient size for 

 moving under the above conditions have generally been 

 growing where found for a considerable time and the 



