126 FLOWER GARDENING 
shrubberies, strive to get the successive effects with 
only one or two species of shrubs. No mixed 
bloom can begin to make the picture that is cre- 
ated by a massing of Spiraea van Houttei or pink 
weigela alone, or laburnum and purple lilacs to- 
gether. Clashing shrubs need not be discarded if 
the place is of any size; there is always room for 
more somewhere. 
Do not mass all of the shrubs. Now and then 
isolate one and let it give full play to individuality 
as expressed in its natural form. If inclined to 
primness, let it be prim; if rambling, let it ramble. 
This not merely for specimens in the garden or 
on the lawn, but one standing out in blooming 
time from a shrubbery background. A shrub that 
has a great burst of bloom—a magnolia, flame 
azalea, rhododendron, Hydrangea paniculata, for- 
sythia, Spiraea van Houttei, Dentzia corymbiflora, 
double Philadelphus coronarius (Boule d’ Argent) 
double white lilac (Madame Casimir Perier), 
weigela or any of the double-flowered fruit trees— 
if thus left to itself, will be an annual spectacle, 
growing in beauty with the fullness of age. 
In some cases old wood will have to be removed, 
but keep the pruning down to the appearance of 
there not being any. There is always a tendency 
to over-prune shrubs. Where sheer form of a 
restrained artificial character is desired, there are 
shrubs trained.in standard, or tree, shape to be 
had. For the lawn this shape has an advantage in 
that the grass does not suffer beneath it. The lilac, 
