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PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Fig. 87. — Groupings of trees and 



shrubs along curved driveways 



are artistic and pleasing. 



Lines of trees should be 



avoided. — See page 93 



LAWN GROUPINGS 



The lawn plantations or groups, those which are planted in the 

 middle distance, should be pleasing in outline and so placed as to 

 accentuate the view to some pleasing object beyond. The plants 

 should be so arranged in the group tliat the outline is ilowing and 

 not stiff and regular. For the general arrangement and varieties 

 best suited to such groupings we may take some suggestions from 

 Nature, as there are certain trees and shrubs which we frequently 

 find standing apart from woodlands. 



The Balsam Fir and the White Birch (Fig. 93) make a pleasing 

 combination planted together, also either the Austrian or White 

 Pine and the Beech. The Oriental Spruce, Nordmann's Fir and 

 Roster's Blue Spruce (Fig. 92) may be used together in groups with 

 very gratifying results. The Japanese conifers, such as the Retinis- 

 poras, should always be grouped together or with the Arborvitaes. 

 They do not harmonize well with the coarser leaved conifers. 



