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ornamental and at the same time subserve (or at least seem 

 to) some useful end: for instance, the taller kinds, as the 

 lilac, snow-ball, and the like, are the most proper to cover 

 board fences and for the back part of shrubberies ; the more 

 dwarf kinds, as the double flowering almond, roses, mcze- 

 reon, and so on, for the front or facing. There is also some 

 taste required in mixing the varieties of foliage and habits of 

 the different kinds to be planted, which can only be acquired 

 by due observance of shrubs when in full foliage. The 

 -planting should be so managed that when grown up the out- 

 line is natural, that is to say not too formal ; but here and 

 there a little broken by some tall shrub growing above the 

 rest. In the front of such plantations a part of them should 

 be planted with herbaceous and other kinds of plants, which, 

 when nicely mingled with the shrubs, form a pretty contrast 

 in the flowering season. Indeed the margin of a shrubbery 

 is the best situation where such plants would flourish and 

 show to good advantage, besides giving a fine finish to the 

 whole. 



CHAPTER X. 



City and Native American Flower Garden. 



ART. 1. The City Flower Garden. 



THE flower garden attached to city residences, when well 

 managed, embraces many useful features relative to health 

 and pleasure, and in every way conveys to the proprietor a 

 moral lesson in natural history of the most refined nature. I 

 trust that every intelligent person is aware that the continual 

 working of the ground, attached to city residences, is, in every 

 way, conducive to the health of the inmates, by dispelling and 

 rectifying the impure vapor, arising from smoke and other 



