SHRUBS 245 



highway and make use of shrubs for lawn 

 planting. 



EFFECTIVENESS OF SHRUBS 



Too often the advantages of shrubs are over- 

 looked or ignored. Tall-growing and dwarf, 

 deciduous and evergreen, there are few places 

 where they will not succeed and, thriving, add 

 materially to the beauty of the home. They have 

 in the first place two distinct values : they are 

 serviceable when employed as individual speci- 

 mens, planted in isolated situations for formal 

 effect, and valuable when grown in masses, 

 forming what are commonly termed shrubber- 

 ies. Both methods of planting have their par- 

 ticular uses and advantages but, although the 

 inclination as a rule is in the direction of indi- 

 vidual or specimen planting rather than mass 

 planting, the latter and not the former is to 

 be recommended. The amateur, however, is 

 far more likely to adopt the course proscribed 

 than that which is advised, for it appears to 

 him that shrubs scattered about the lawn add 

 more to the yard's general appearance than 

 when they are grouped. But, as a matter of 

 fact, mass planting and not specimen planting 



