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attractive arrangement that hadn't crossed their 

 minds before. To get the very best plan at first, 

 it is well, before you plant, to study all the ways 

 in which you may plant, and all the forms into 

 which trees and plants may be combined. 



We plant to secure beauty and to build useful 

 arrangements of growing things. As means for 

 accomplishing these ends, we arrange trees and 

 shrubs in the form of live fences, or hedges, of 

 windbreaks, shelter-groups, screens, single speci- 

 mens, ground-covers, and even in forests. We aim 

 to get shade, colors in leaves during fall, winter, 

 spring and summer, colors and fragrance in blos- 

 soms; aim to provide homes for birds, try to pro- 

 vide attractive-looking surroundings, to punctuate 

 the sky-line and to secure general beauty of land- 

 scape. A planting may be something to play with 

 and work over, or it may be able to take care of 

 itself, just as we select the trees and shrubs. In 

 any case, a planting should be made up to suit your 

 conditions. 



Now, it is "up to you" to decide the proper 

 quantity of hedge and shade and protection and 

 color. Our wish is to see that you overlook no 

 opportunities when you are making your plans. The 

 foregoing is a brief outline of what forms your 

 planting may take, and here following are sugges- 

 tions of good trees and shrubs that may be used to 

 make up each form. 



For hedges, Privet is best three-fourths of the 

 time. Its usefulness is explained in other parts of 

 this book. The other time in four, however, you 

 may want a bigger hedge or a smaller one. Hem- 

 lock and Norway Spruce make a hedge 12 feet 

 high and 10 feet thick, if you let them grow with- 

 out trimming, while with Barberry or Boxwood you 

 may have a hedge only 6 inches high. American 

 Arborvitse, is another good evergreen for hedges, 

 and Azaleas, Rhododendron, Euonymus, and 

 Hydrangea also make big hedges. 



For shade under average conditions nothing is 

 better than Norway Maples. All the other shade 

 trees in our list are valuable in some way, and they 

 should be planted when they are suitable. Read 

 the descriptions, and you can tell what each kind 

 is good for and whether or not it appeals to you. 



Windbreaks and shelter -groups may be made 

 with any of the shade trees, preferably the thickest 

 ones, but evergreens give the most protection. 

 Norway, Blue and Douglas Spruces, the Pines, 

 American Arborvitae, Nordmann's and White Firs 

 are excellent for this purpose. Mixed deciduous 



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