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rriage turn-arounds, and along the edges of groups of taller 

 vergreens on the lawn. 



A mixture of incongruous growths is apt to be the worst 

 istake of the tyro who choses the novelties of the nurseryman's 

 atalogue so beguilingly described and then tries to reconcile the 

 ees to the requirements of his place. Very rarely does he think 

 reversing the operation. After the experienced landscape 

 ardener has drawn to scale a plan of the area to be beautified, he 

 akes an inventory of what nature offers in the region, not only 

 ecause the native trees will thrive best, but because they most 

 ttingly tie a new place to the surrounding landscape, making it an 

 tegral part of the region at once. These will be the first on his 

 st when he visits nurseries to select and tag stock. But not a 

 ee will be ordered whose place is not already assigned on his 

 rawn and redrawn plan. It is so much easier to rectify mistakes, 

 nd so much less expensive to shift tree belts, hedges, screens, 

 asses of trees and fine isolated specimens on paper than with 

 ngs of Italians and big tree-movers. The knowledgeable gar- 

 ener with taste, who plants trees with a careful consideration for 

 ach of soil, situation, and climate, is an indispensable economy to 

 e inexperienced patron. Even comfortably poor people cannot 

 ell afford not to consult him if they did but realise their own 

 imitations and his worth. 



For formal touches, no other hardy evergreens will reproduce 

 this country the effect of the Italian cypress so well as the red 

 uniper, or so-called cedar (Juniperus Firginiana), and the artist- 

 gardener uses hedges, screens, and arches of it as well as the tall, 

 tapering, spire-like specimens that pierce the sky. In another 

 locality the columnar arborvitae, the true white cedar of the 

 orthern States (Thuya occidentalism var. pyramidalis), might serve 



