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used in the background and lighter fohage in 

 the foreground, and if there is more variety 

 of hue near the eye than farther back^ the 

 shrubbery will gain in depth and richness of 

 effect. 



Natural development, I say, is what we 

 want in a base - line of shrubs and vines 

 where the home-grounds are naturalistically 

 treated ; and quiet green must be the dom- 

 inant color. But there are certain brilliant 

 color-effects, of a transitory sort, which the 

 planter would be foolish, nay, culpable, to 

 neglect. I mean the color - effects which 

 will come and go as the blossoms of vines 

 and shrubs open and wither. So vast is the 

 variety of species bearing conspicuous flov>^- 

 ers that one might easily plant a great 

 shrubbery which, at a given moment, would 

 hardly show a green leaf at all. But this is 

 not what we want around house-foundations. 

 We want shrubs which will blossom succes- 

 sively, one unfolding its flowers as the flow- 

 ers of its neighbors fade, and all together 

 giving us at all seasons a general mass of 

 green with here and there a lovely bouquet 



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