26 FLOWERING AND ORAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



easily, and may be interwoven with the adjoining 

 branches. When Shrubs, Creepers, or Climbers, are 

 planted against walls or trellises, either on account of 

 their rarity, delicacy, or to conceal a rough fence or 

 other unsightly object, they require different modes of 

 training; some attach .themselves naturally, as the 

 ivy, and merely require to be occasionally guided, so 

 as to cause a regular distribution of their shoots ; others 

 must be treated like fruit trees, trained thinly, if 

 blossoms are the object, and rather thicker, if the in- 

 tention be to show the foliage to the greatest possible 

 advantage. 



Ornamental shrubs grow from one foot to twelve or 

 more in height ; and where such are planted for orna- 

 ment, the height of each plant when full grown should 

 be considered, and also the mode of growth, that 

 every one may be so planted as to show to advantage, 

 observing that the tall-growing should be planted in 

 the back borders, and those of low growth forward ; 

 but if they are required to be planted in clumps, they 

 should be so arranged as to rise gradually from the 

 sides to the middle, and be afterwards neatly trimmed. 

 Shrubs require an annual pruning, at which time, cut 

 out all irregular and superfluous branches, and head 

 down such as require it, forming them into handsome 

 bushes ; apply stakes to such as may need support, 

 and see that the low-growing ones do not injure each 

 other, nor interfere with other dwarfish plants near 

 them. 



Many kinds of Shrubs may be raised from seed sown 



