TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
iarity with trees and shrubs is the main part of landscape gardening, 
as some persons appear to think. 
In all such plantings use comparatively few species. The 
plan now reproduced has too many. Four different kinds would 
make a better design than the eight here used; but the larger num- 
ber is adopted in here in order to increase the interest during various 
seasons of the year. 
It is essential that each species be used in mass. There should 
be ten or a dozen of a kind, and from that number up to 100 of each 
sort. 
Contrasted with these mass plantings occasional individual or 
specimen plants may be used. ‘These should be of the finest sorts 
and should appear at the accentuated points in the planting (nodes 
or paragraphs). In the accompanying plan the flowering crab 
(Malus floribunda) and the dwarf almond (Amygdalus nana) are 
used in this way. 
A very common fault in such plantings is the employment of 
too many species and too few plants of a kind. 
In work of this sort avoid plants with coarse texture or of 
unusual colorings, especially all variegated sorts and those having 
red or yellow foliage. Such homegrounds plantings are subject to 
the same rules of taste as the furnishings in the interior of the house 
or the clothes which one wears about his daily business. Any- 
thing “loud,” coarse or conspicuous is evidence of a taste unculti- 
vated and unrefined. 
Questions 
Where is the best shrubbery planting in your neighborhood? 
If good plantings are accessible it will be well worth while for the 
pupil to make measured plans of them, identifying all plants and 
entering the names on his plan. 
Under what circumstances might such conspicuous trees and 
shrubs as Schwerdler maple, Pissard plum, variegated weigelia, 
golden syringa, etc., be used? 
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