THE SHRUBBERY 9 



select a few choice ones, for which you need not 

 give more than one shilling and sixpence or two 

 shillings each, and plant them at such distance 

 from each other as will be required when they are 

 full grown, and fill in with a very cheap kind which 

 will grow quickly, and which can be removed as 

 required to make room for the good ones ; such as 

 a few choice (or moderately choice) Firs and Pines 

 (I will not frighten you by their names), filled in 

 with Larch, Arborvitae, or Privet, which can be had 

 for about five shillings a hundred or less. 



With deciduous shrubs you may fill in with 

 Elder, Thorn, Berberis, Bubus, etc. ; choosing 

 those things that grow most easily on your own soil. 



This plan serves the purpose of economy, and 

 also furnishes a good shelter for your more precious 

 shrubs while they are growing, each inferior plant 

 being moved as the better one grows up to it ; so 

 that in years to come your space will be filled, and 

 well filled, with good things only. 



People are very apt to make the mistake of 

 planting too closely, which ends in the good plants 

 spoiling each other, or else entails their being moved 

 at an advanced age when there is great risk of their 

 being damaged. 



