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steady them, and by using " feathered " standards 

 a solid screen of greenery is produced the first year. 

 Laburnums, thorns, various crabs, Lombardy pop- 

 lar, beech, hornbeam, lime, all are suited to this 

 method. The trees must be kept pleached, and 

 can be made to occupy a narrower space than an 

 ordinary hedge. 



A belt of planting of uniform width should 

 never be set round a place. If solid planting is 

 required for shelter or privacy a belt can be 

 planted and trees brought forward in places, and a 

 few isolated ones put near the prominent parts 

 to further break the line. 



PRIVACY 



EXTENSIVE planting is often necessary to secure 

 privacy, so dear to an Englishman. The love of 

 exclusiveness is carried to an absurd extent, as 

 evidenced by the expenditure on low walls and 

 cast-iron railings to cut off a tiny patch of land 

 from the street. Such patches thrown into a 

 continuous strip would be worth something for 

 the public good, while in their present state they 

 are too small to be valued ; at least one seldom 

 sees any attempt to beautify them. On a larger 

 scale the villa garden is bounded by fence or wall, 

 and each owner tries to hide his neighbour's 

 windows, often at the expense of sunshine and air. 

 It is impossible to circumvent being overlooked by 



