110 OF SHRUBS, SHRUBBERIES, &C. SECT. IX. 



the ground, the lower parts and deeper foil will be more 

 fuitable to fbme, and the higher and fhalicwer may do 

 very well for others. 



Tender fhrubs fhould not only be fheltered for 

 protection, but be planted in a dry fpot open to the fun: 

 Some things will live abroad in a dry and poor foil, 

 that would feldom furvive a winter in a rich and moift 

 one. The more towering forts muft be placed behind, 

 and the lefs fo before them, gradually declining to the 

 low growing ones, in a fort of theatrical order : This 

 is necefTary in a fhrubbery, and indeed all plantations, 

 but more fo in the difpofition of plants in dumps, keep- 

 ing the center high, and falling gradually towards the 

 edge. Thus the Items, and naked parts of the higher 

 plants are hid by thofe before them, and the whole 

 appears to the eye a full fcene of verdure. 



The feafon of fhrubs flowering and leafing is a 

 material point to provide for, by a proper di-ftribution, 

 that there may be a fprinkling of decoration every 

 month, in every part. And in this bufinefs, an equally 

 difperfed mixture of the evergreen, and deciduous forts, 

 is necefTary to be obferved. See Seel. 19. 



As to the proportion of this mixture, it will depend 

 upon tafle, and the opportunity of procuring the one 

 fort, or the other; but the circumftance may direct (in 

 a meafure) whether the plantation of fhrubs be about 

 the houfe, or at a diftance from it. In the former cafe, 

 more evergreens fhould be made ufe of, as in fight in 

 w r inter: generally fpeaking, perhaps, one evergreen, 

 and two deciduous fhrubs, or one and three may form 

 an agreeable fhrubbery at all times. 



A regularity in planting fhrubs is not necefTary as to 

 lines, but is rather to be avoided, except juft in the 

 front, where there fhould always be fome low ones, 

 and a border {oxfiovjers, chiefly of thefpring, as fum- 

 mer ones are apt to be drawn up weak, if the fhrubbery 

 walks are not very wide. The flowers fhould be of 

 the lowefl growth, and rather bulbous rooted. To- 

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