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are long enough, they should gently curve, and shrub masses 

 may be planted in these curves. The trees and shrubs 

 should not be in rows, but in masses and groups, curving 

 naturally into the lawn. .The angles at the building and 

 ground should be broken by shrubs and flower borders. 



Materials to Use in Planting. There is little excuse for 

 country home and school grounds being barren and unplanted, 

 when they stand in the midst of such a wealth of nature's 

 material for making them beautiful. Fortunately nature has 

 aided the indolent and indifferent man in many cases by grow- 



A Pasture Scene in West Virginia. Courtesy of A. B. Brooks. 



ing the trees and shrubs in abundance about his home and 

 school grounds. Where such is the case, he ought to be en- 

 joined from cutting them down, except to shape their arrange- 

 ment in harmony with the correct principles of landscape art. 

 Where the native wild shrubs and trees grow naturally on 

 home or school grounds, they should certainly be left with 

 proper arrangement and control. Such native trees as the 

 maple, the linden, the ash, the elm, the poplar, the dogwood, 

 the service berry, the buckeye, and others, and such shrubs 

 as the rhododendron, the wild hydrangea, the azelea, the spice 

 bush, the sumac, the choke cherry, and elder, may be success- 

 fully transplanted from the forests and fields to the home and 

 school grounds, with little cost except the labor of love. 



