PLANTING THE LAWN 



HEN the lawn is made we 

 begin to puzzle over the 

 planting of trees and 

 shrubbery. 

 What shall we have? 

 Where shall we have it? 

 One of the commonest 

 mistakes made by the man who is his own gar- 

 dener is that of over-planting the home-grounds 

 with trees and shrubs. This mistake is made be- 

 cause he does not look ahead and see, with the 

 mind's eye, what the result will be, a few years 

 from now, of the work he does to-day. 



The sapling of to-day wiU in a short time 

 become a tree of good size, and the bush that 

 seems hardly worth considering at present will 

 develop into a shrub three, four, perhaps six feet 

 across. If we plant closely, as we are all in- 

 clined to because of the small size of the material 

 we use at planting time, we will soon have a 

 thicket, and it will be necessary to sacrifice most 

 of the shrubs in order to give the few we leave 

 sufficient room to develop in. Therefore do not 



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