EMBELLISHMENT OF SHRUBBERY BORDERS. 119 
straight along, perhaps with a tile edging. Well, the right 
way is to have a broken margin, to let the shrubs run in and 
out themselves, and let them form the margin; let them 
come to the ground in fact, not stiffly, and here and there 
growing right outside the ordinary boundary, in a little group. 
Throw away altogether the crowded masses of starved privet 
and pruned laurel, and let the turf pass right under a group 
of fine trees where such are found. This turf itself might 'be 
dotted in spring with snowdrops and early flowers; nothing, 
in fact, would be easier than for any intelligent person, who 
knew and cared for trees and shrubs, to change the monotonous 
wall of shrubbery into the most delightful of open-air gardens ; 
abounding in beautiful life, from the red tassels on the top- 
most maples to flowers in the grass for children. 
Colony of the Summer Snowflake, on margin of shrubbery. 
