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SCREEN PLANTING 
or by planting a one-row screen of dense columnar Evergreens. The latter has two 
advantages — First, being evergreen, the effect lasts all year round; even winter's harshest 
touch cannot lessen it. Second, narrow Evergreens like these do not take up much 
land space. These columnar Evergreens are presented on Page 29. 
Planting for Seclusion and Privacy 
While serving a slightly different purpose, shrubbery screens planted to bring greater 
seclusion and privacy to a home should be planned and handled in much the same manner 
as that which we already have suggested for the Screen Plantings described in the 
foregoing paragraphs. 
Your house may be close to your neighbor's. From the windows of the house next 
door one can look into your windows, or vice-versa. Lights from the other house or from the 
street may annoy you on summer evenings. You have not the feeling of seclusion you 
would most enjoy. 
Sketch No. 9 illustrates the remedy. 
See pages 20 and 28 for the shrubs suitable for screening as above. 
This planting (of deciduous varieties) is very similar to that shown in Sketch No. 7 
— the taller shrubs being nearest your neighbor's and the smaller shrubs toward your own 
house. The use of deciduous .shrubs for a planting such as this is especially good if you go 
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