THE GREENING LANDSC 



ATTRACTIVE FRONT LAWN TREATMENT 



On small grounds it is impossible to grow large groups of 

 shrubs in natural colonies, and a much better effect is obtained 

 by close pruning to formal lines, conforming with but slightly 

 modifying the lines of the house. This formal effect can be 

 obtained only by the Greening method of spring and summer 

 pruning. The above shows an avenue of medium-sized properties, 

 all treated in the same way, and it has a peculiar nobility of tone 

 that distinguishes it from the ordinary. Only two varieties of 

 shrubs were used, Spirasa Van Houttei next to the house, planted 

 two and one-half feet apart, and Deutzia Gracilis as a trimmer 

 for the front border, planted two feet apart. Berberis Thunbergii 

 may be used instead of the last named. 



It is said that the goldfinch sings the most sweetly 

 when suffering physical pain and that the swan sings 

 only once — just before dying; from which someone has 

 made the lines, — 



"Swans sing before they die: 'twere no bad thing- 

 Did certain persons die before they sing." 



The beauty of color itself is but the interception and 

 reflection of certain rays of light. 



" From thwarted light leaps color's flame." 

 "The stream, impeded, breaks in song." 

 " Obstruction is but Virtue's foil." 



Beethoven said of Rossini that he had the talent in 

 him to have become a great musician, if he had only been 

 well disciplined when a boy ; but he was spoiled by the 

 easy abandon of a Bohemian life. 



My system of summer pruning checks the Bohemian 

 instincts of shrubs — keeps them within the bounds of 

 good behavior — and disciplines them to their highest 

 possibilities of beauty in form and color. 



SHRUBBERY GROUP WITH COLOR EFFECT 



This is a bed of hardy shrubs containing three distinct colors 

 of foliage. The front row is Corchorus, variegated silver-leaf; 

 the next Golden Syringa, a nice creamy mottled yellow; and the 

 back row, Deutzia Gracilis, with green foliage. All three varie- 

 ties blossom freely. This bed is in the writer's own garden, at 

 the entrance to Greening's Big Nurseries. This formal effect is 

 in good taste in the vicinity of buildings where the surroundings 

 are strongly architectural, as in the present instance. The tree 

 is a Norway Maple. 



Plate li)4. Slirubbery Ciirouy -jvitli Color lill'ect 



