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THE GREENING PICTORIAL SYSTEM OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Plate 191. Deutzia Gracilis .Sho^viuj; Greeuiu^^ Metliotl of Suiiuiiei" Pruuin;; 



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DEUTZIA GRACILIS 



The Deutzia Gracilis is free-growing and stands trimming 

 in formal shapes. This is a group of twenty plants in an oval 

 bed and made compact and regular by shearing. The tree in 

 the picture is a Camperdown Elm, which forms an umbrella- 

 like top and makes a nice "playhouse" for children. This is a 

 scene in Greening Park. 



out with the addition of one or two extra prunings during 

 the summer. By this time a very compact growth will 

 ha.ye been secured which will not be difficult to maintain. 

 If desired many beautiful color arrangements can be 

 made, the colors to merge or be separated in terraces or 

 steps. Summer pruning always gives better color to the 

 foliage. 



If we take a broad survey 

 A SURVEY of life we find that all nature 



OF LIFE is under the domain of the 



same law. Jn the oyster and 

 mussel, pearls are formed as the result of irritation by a 

 grain of sand, the exudation that forms a pearl being the 

 effort of nature to correct abnormal conditions. Cocoa- 

 nut pearls, found in Cocoanut trees in the Philippines, 

 result from the trees being out of their normal condition. 

 Flowers need to be crushed before they give forth all 

 their perfume. Shelley says of some poets that they 



"Are cradled into poetry by wrong; 

 They learn in suffering what they teach in song." 



THE GREENING METHOD OF PRUNING FOR FORMAL 



EFFECT 



Another view of the Deutzia Gracilis taken from the oppo- 

 site direction, showing compact formal effect produced by the 

 Greening method of pruning. 



