Book II. PLANTING THE SHRUBBERY. 805 



row may be two feet from the margin of the turf or the edge of the walk ; the second, three feet from 

 the first ; the third, four feet from the second ; and so on to the back of the plantation. Suppose the 

 width to admit of ten rows {fig. 558. a to A), then the six rows next the walk will occupy a space of twenty . 

 seven feet, which may be devoted to shrubs, and the remaining three rows will occupy a space of thirty- 

 seven feet, and may be planted with trees. Then beginning with the first row, which is destined for the 

 lowest class of shrubs, arrange them according to the times of their flowering, which will, as in arranging 

 herbaceous plants, be most conveniently done at six times: viz. 1, March ; 2, April, &c. to 6, August; 

 and they will stand as in the flower-border in the order of 1, 6, 3, 5, 2, 4, and with the colors in the same 

 manner (a). The second row {b) is to be arranged in the same manner ; and as trees, though nearly of 

 the same size when planted, yet attain finally very different degrees of bulk, provision must be made for 

 the plants in each row to expand year after year, till they attain their full growth. This we propose to 

 do by planting two plants of a sort in the second row [b], three in the third, and so on (as indicated in the 

 figure), till in the last or tenth row (A), there will be ten plants of a sort in a line together. It is to be 

 observed, that a deciduous and an evergreen sort (marked d, e t in the figure) are to be planted alternately, 

 in order to ensure an equal mixture in respect to verdure ; and that the colors (denoted by r, w, b, y, in 

 the figure) are mixed as in the mingled border, to ensure a general display of mixed blossoms. The se- 

 cond or third year such of the plants are to be thinned out as crowd the others, reserving, however, as 

 final plants, one of each sort, (say E for the evergreens, and D for the deciduous sorts), so placed in re- 

 spect to the plants in the other rows, as that the whole, when finally thinned out, may stand in quincunx. 

 The largest trees will then occupy about 100 square feet each ; and each of the shrubs in the front row 

 about a square yard : there will be the same number of deciduous plants as evergreens; some shrubs of 

 all the four colors in blow throughout the whole season, and a verdant aspect in summer as well as winter. 



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