FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
try to follow nature’s methods. (1) Rows are al- 
ways to be avoided, except for windbreaks, and for 
bordering straight drives. (2) Shrubs that have 
poor outlines when standing alone should be group- 
ed. (3) Do not repeat the same effect in your 
grouping, but seek variety. (4) Each group of 
shrubs should bring out, if possible, a succession of 
bloom. (5) Low-growing shrubs should stand in 
front of the taller. (6) Avoid fancy grouping and 
geometrical outlines. (7) Walks should not go 
anywhere or nowhere, but somewhere; and if they 
bend they should be bent around something. (8) 
When you get through planting, the effect should be 
that all parts fit together — as the parts of a group 
create a single whole. Your shrubbery and your 
lawn should not be so individualized as not to fit 
together, and then bear no natural association 
with your gardens and orchards. 
The aim of this book is everywhere to steer clear 
of pettiness and small local effects, in favor of gen- 
eral and unified beauty and utility. For this reas- 
on we have nothing but disapproval for those lawns 
that involve fussiness and cost, and therefore are 
without adequate compensation. We should not 
indulge in little show lawns or in trifling lawns, 
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