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porches, steps, or bay-windows, carry them 

 along in lower groups, then break them, 

 and for a little space let the foundations be 

 seen resting on the grass, in order that their 

 stabihty may be clearly manifest, and then, 

 in another angle, place another more im- 

 portant group. Take the outline of the 

 house and the character of its features as 

 your guide, and accent these while uniting 

 the building, as a whole, with its site. 

 And do not conceal beautiful adjacent feat- 

 ures, but sedulously plant out" those 

 which, like out-houses and drying-yards^ 

 should not be seen. 



Plant closely at first and then, as the in- 

 dividuals develop, thin out those which are 

 no longer needed, for crowded, ill-grown 

 shrubs are as ineffective as a garment for the 

 walls as painful to the eye of the true lover 

 of plants. Each shrub should be well de- 

 veloped and have room to display its pe- 

 culiar habit, and the masses, as a whole, 

 should have that play of light and shade and 

 that freedom of movement which are ruined 

 by overcrowding. Above all, never shear off 

 the tops of these shrubs to a horizontal line, 



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