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SILVER OR WHITE BIKChES. 



TREES AND SHRUBS IN GARDEN AND WOODLAND. 

 By W. J. Bean, Royal Gardens, Kew. 



IT will be generally admitted that shrubberies do not form one of the most beautiful features 

 of many English gardens. Who is not familiar with the depressing " mixed shrubbery," 

 an endless repetition of Laurel, Pontic Rhododendron, Privet, Aucuba, and such-like ? 

 All should be swept away in the interests of true gardening, and their place occupied 

 by shrubs of infinitely greater charm and interest. One has at command a host 

 of beautiful shrubs adapted to different places and positions, some unfortunately rarely seen. 

 Trees are not as a rule so neglected and badly grown as shrubs. Their size in a measure protects 

 them from the indiscriminate huddling together that their dwarfer relatives undergo. But the 

 wealth of tree beauty that is now open to the planter is far from being fully taken advantage of. 

 The Conifer "craze." that lasted through several decades in the middle of this century, resulted in 

 these shrubs being planted too liberally in our park's and gardens, with the result that the deciduous 

 trees that have been sent tons from the North temperate regions have never been adequately 

 represented. I may mention specially the magnificent Oaks, Ashes, Maples, Hickories, Birches, 

 Amelanchiers, and Magnolias from North America ; the Cherries, Witch Hazels, White Beam 

 Trees, Alders, and Walnuts of North Asia; the Limes of Eastern Europe; the Zelkowas and 

 Pterocaryas of the Caucasus and Japan. It is hoped that the detailed lists which follow this 

 chapter will do much to bring their value and that of many others into greater prominence. 



However choice and beautiful our plants may be, little is gained if their arrangement and 

 treatment arc unsuitable. A common fault in planting shrubs is that of simply filling up the space, 

 regardless of artistic effect or association. Every tree or shrub should be planted with a view 

 to effect, perhaps for the sake of its own leaf beauty, or its bark, or its flowers, or to intensify 



