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■ becomes a very large and spreading tree. It is unsuited to any 

 but extensive grounds or farms. 



Willow. — Salix. — There is a large variety of Willows, all of 

 narrow leaves and slender branches or spray. Aside from the 

 Weepers or Drooping, the Golden-barked is the only one of 

 value. 



ORNAMENTAL DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



In all grounds a well appointed and arranged shrubbery is a 

 most effective feature, and in grounds of smali extent, such as 

 the front gardens of suburban city lots, the use of shrubs or 

 trees of small growth is more to be commended than those of 

 a towering or large spreading habit. Just enough of large trees 

 should be planted to form necessary shade, and then the effect 

 and general impression of beauty be created by the planting of 

 deciduous trees and evergreen shrubs. One of the most 

 important things in planting shrubs is to attend particularly to 

 the shades of green in foliage ; another is an understanding of 

 soils in which they will grow and develop themselves most 

 luxuriantly. Even the effect of perspective may be considerably 

 increased by the proper arrangement of trees. Shrubs whose 

 leaves are of a gray or bluish tint, when seen over or between 

 shrubs of a yellowish or bright green, will seem thrown into the 

 distance. Those, again, with small or tremulous leaves should 

 be set over or before those with large, broad, fixed foliage. 

 Where the situation will permit, three or five Lilacs, or 

 Weigelas, or Tree Honey-suckles, or Japan Quince with 

 Forsythias and Deutzia Scabra, as a foreground, may be 

 grouped together. 



"A shrubbery," says Mr. Phillips, "should be planted as a 

 court or stage dress is ornamented, for general effect and not for 

 particular and partial impression. Boldness of design, which 

 seems to be more the offspring of Nature and chance than, of art 



