24 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
nity along the borders to distribute trees and shrubs that may 
be desired as individual specimens. 
The motive that shears the trees also razes the copse, in order 
that the gardener or “improver’’ may show his art. Compare 
4 Figs. 14 and 15. Many 
persons seem to fear that 
they will never be known 
to the world unless they 
expend a great amount of 
muscle or do something 
emphatic or spectacular; 
and their fears are usually 
well founded. 
It is not enough that 
trees and bushes be planted 
in masses. They must be 
kept in masses by letting 
14. A rill much as nature made it. 
ba ie 
ve ogy 
them grow freely in a natu- ‘na 
ral way. The pruning- we 
knifeis the most inveterate 
enemy of shrubbery. Pic- 
tures 16 and 17 illustrate 
what I mean. The former 
represents a good group of 
bushes so far as arrange- 
ment is concerned, but it : 
has been ruined by the 15. A rill “improved,” so that it will not 
slicers. “The attention of look “ragged’”’ and unkempt. 
the observer is instantly arrested by the individual bushes. 
Instead of one free and expressive object, there are several stiff 
