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be seen through, while yet there are clear passage 

 ways. Diagram 86 should make this clear. This 

 arrangement is particularly useful alongside a 

 drive where a hedge might be too stiff, and it 

 effectually prevents the garden behind from being 

 overlooked. Shrubberies, especially when mostly 

 composed of evergreens, make good screens, but it 

 must be remembered that such is not the only 

 object of shrubs. If the planting space is too 



DIAGRAM 86. 



narrow for shrubs to be allowed their natural 

 growth, rather than resort to clipping, substitute 

 a hedge. Where less than 2 ft. width can be given, 

 treillage and climbers should be used. 



Rights of way occasionally destroy the privacy 

 of parks and gardens. Old farmhouses converted 

 into residences often have these across where the 

 garden is to be planned. These rights of way are 

 usually diagonally placed, which gives an ugly 

 line in itself, but can be obviated by planting out 

 as in the Diagram 87. On this particular piece of 

 land the house was placed so that the public path 

 came between it and the park, and by planting in 



