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knowledge — has had opportunity to propose the 

 planting. Or mayhap the planter has been so 

 fortunate as to have visited the Arnold Arboretum 

 of Harvard University, or to have received its 

 bulletins, so as to observe or read how the great 

 world-master of shrubs and trees, Professor Sar- 

 gent, uses autumn leaf, bare twig color and endur- 

 ing bright fruits to add interest at the season mis- 

 called melancholy. The department-store type of 

 home-planting takes no account of such matters; 

 nor does the average nurseryman, I am sorry to 

 say, who is all too likely to sell the shrubs and 

 trees that grow most easily and look most impres- 

 sively large as young plants. It is as users of 

 plants and trees for the making of living pic- 

 tures in the open come to know what they can 

 have, and what may be accomplished at various 

 times of the year, that the proper shrubs will be 

 grown, and desirable individuality will be im- 

 pressed upon gardens. I have seen home-grounds 

 done sadly often upon the same general architec- 

 tural concept as that which has governed the 

 building in some cities of block on block, or row on 

 row, of identical houses. Even the individual bad 

 taste of using a Colorado blue spruce away from 

 absorbing and harmonizing greens is better than 

 the dread monotony of hydrangea "p. g.," golden 



