WHERE TO PLANT WHAT 



enough, you ask, to afford new lists year after 

 year ? Well, for the campus of a certain prepara- 

 tory school for boys, with the planting of which 

 the present writer had somewhat to do a few 

 years ago, the list of shrubs set round the bases 

 of four large buildings and several hundred 

 yards of fence numbered seventy-five kinds. 

 To end the chapter, let us say something about 

 that operation. On a pictorial page or two we 

 give ourselves the pleasure of showing the results 

 of this undertaking; but first, both by pictures 

 and by verbal description let me show where we 

 planted what. Of course we made sundry mis- 

 takes. Each thing we did may be vulnerable to 

 criticism, and our own largest hope is that our 

 results may not fall entirely beneath that sort 

 of compliment. 



This campus covers some five acres in the 

 midst of a small town. Along three of its 

 boundaries old maples and elms, in ordinary 

 single-file shade- tree lines, tower and spread. 

 On the fourth line, the rear bound, a board fence 

 divides the ground from the very unattractive 

 back yards, stables and sheds of a number of 



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