EMBELLISHMENT OF SHRUBBERY BORDERS. 115 
would have to be made here and there. In the case of 
young shrubberies it is, of course, necessary at first to keep 
the surface open for a while until the shrubs have taken hold 
of the ground; then the interesting colonies to which we 
alluded may be planted. 
An essential thing is to abolish utterly the old dotting 
‘Solony of the Snowdrop-Anemone in Shrubbery not dug. Anemone taking 
the place of weeds or bare earth. 
principle of the mixed border, as always ugly and always bad 
from a cultural point of view. Instead of sticking a number 
of things in one place, with many labels, and graduating them 
from the back to the front, so as to secure the stiffest imagin- 
able kind of arrangement, the true way is to have in each 
space wide colonies or groups of one kind, or more than one 
