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place for plants that you would like to grow but 
have not the room for in the garden; or perhaps 
they do not suit the scheme there. Straight edg- 
ings are allowable when circumstances warrant 
them, but naturalistic colonies are best. 
The space under shrubs of a spreading habit 
need never go to waste. Under deciduous shrubs 
it is just the spot’for permanent colonies of small 
bulbs which it is often risky to grow in the gar- 
den, where their location in little groups is easily 
lost sight of. Similarly the foam flower (Tiarella 
cordifolia) and other shade-loving carpeting plants 
will gladly cover the ground beneath shrubs. A 
bulb and a carpeting plant may be used together, 
or two different bulbs colonized. 
Shrubs have an April to October range of bloom, 
with the greatest burst of it in May and June. 
The sweet gale (Myrica) and Mahonia japonica 
are due in February and March and Daphne me- 
zereum in the latter month, while the witch hazel 
holds off until November; but between October 
and April color must largely be a matter of fo- 
liage and fruit. Fortunately shrubs are so gen- 
erous in these two respects that planning for the 
entire year is possible. 
As with perennials, shrubs should be planted 
for long succession. Thus the forsythia, Spiraea 
van Houttei, althea and Hydrangea paniculata are 
a good sequence, that may be lengthened by adding 
Berberis Thunbergii and Ilex opaca for the com- 
pletion of a year’s circle. As a rule, especially in 
