114. FLOWER GARDENING 
planting by a circumscribing wall, they are rarely 
lost altogether from view. No matter how plainly 
defined, what it is so pleasant to call the garden 
is no more all the garden, in the broadest sense, 
than the section of a city that is built up solid 
is all of that city. As the city rambles suburban- 
ward, so the garden spreads and spreads, until the 
ends thereof are the boundaries of the home site. 
Shrubs are not the only factors in this garden ex- 
tension, but the flowering ones are the dominant 
denotive figures. A shrub in the garden, or by the 
side of it, a few more near the house and a small 
border of them in one corner of the grounds— 
there you have the simplest sort of a garden chain; 
yet one binding together the parts of a small place. 
Shrubs, in short, are prime material for the mak- 
ing of the piers of the imaginary garden bridges 
that every place, whether large or small, needs. 
A great English estate, such as Witley Court, 
the main portion of which stretches out into ten 
thousand acres, shows how little size has to do 
with the expression of the thought. May is two- 
thirds over and the garden of gardens, that the 
stately mansion looks out upon, is aglow with rho- 
dodendrons. But in every direction flowering 
shrubs are beckoning, as if to remind you that 
there is more to the garden than that. Whichever 
way you turn there are links with the garden; 
some of them bind it to other gardens, and then 
away again. In one direction you are soon in 
the woods, but along the broad shaded path are 
