CHAPTER IX 
Shrubs We Love to See 
“‘Every yard should be a picture. The observer 
should catch the entire effect and purpose, without 
analyzing its parts.’’ 
—Bailey. 
OF course you want to know something about 
shrubs. For what? Possibly just to make a tiny 
hedge around your garden, or a taller one to shut 
out the view of some neighbor’s untidy backyard. 
More likely for a lovely specimen plant for your 
own grounds. In that case, don’t, oh, don’t! set it 
out in the middle of the lawn! And two or three 
thus dotted around (in ‘‘spotty planting,’’ so 
called) are the acme of bad taste, and violate the 
fundamental principles of landscape gardening. 
Our grandmothers all loved the tall syringa, 
honeysuckle, snowball, strawberry shrub, weigela, 
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