GROUPING OF TREES AND SHRUBS ii 



mark it ; and not to send the list to the nursery till 

 the ground is well forward for planting, so that the 

 moment the plants come they may go to their 

 places. 



All this planning and thinking should be done in 

 the summer, so that the list may go to the nursery 

 in September, which will enable the nurseryman to 

 supply the trees in the earliest and best of the plant- 

 ing season. 



How good it would be to plant a whole hillside on 

 chalky soil with grand groupings of Yew or Box, or 

 with these intergrouped, and how easy afterwards to 

 run among these groupings of lesser shrubs ; or to 

 plant light land with Scotch Fir and Holly, Thorn 

 and Juniper (just these few things grouped and 

 intergrouped) ; or wastes of sandhills near the sea 

 within our milder shores with Sea Buckthorn and 

 Tamarisk, and Monterey Cypress {Cupressus macro- 

 carpa), and long drifts of the handsome Blue Lyme 

 Grass. 



A mile of sandy littoral might be transformed with 

 these few things, and no others than its own wild 

 growths, into a region of delight, where noble tree 

 form of rapid growth, tender colour of plume-like 

 branch and bloom and brilliant berry, and waving 

 blue grassy ribbons, equalling in value any of the lesser 

 Bamboos, would show a lesson of simple planting 

 such as is most to be desired but is rarely to be 

 seen. 



The other and commoner way is nothing but a 

 muddle from beginning to end. A van -load of 



