FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
perfect form and its acuminate leaves. The fern- 
leaved linden is also an elegant tree. The common 
European linden grows to a large size, with large 
leaves and fragrant flowers. The list of choice 
elms is also very long, and full of attractive trees. 
The English elm is very spreading, and with smaller 
leaves than our American. The nettle-leaved elm 
is a very curious tree, with some claims to general 
planting. 
We now turn to the shrubbery. I know that at 
the outset most of my readers will be unprepared 
to follow me when I recommend giving to shrubs 
a large space. They will yield about a flower gar- 
den, but that there should be a half acre or more 
of blossoming shrubs they cannot believe essential. 
But watch nature, and observe that she plants her 
hillsides not only with groups of trees, but with 
great patches of bushes; and these are really the 
glory of the successive seasons. While I write I 
look over the valley, and see plains of sumac— 
slopes of half an acre each that blaze with it. Then 
all up and down the sides of the creek run a shrub- 
bery of elder bushes, twisted and twined with bit- 
tersweet, and grape vines full of huge clusters 
of purple berries. All above these hang willow 
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