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Screen Planting 
The planting of shrubs and trees around one's place can be made to do much more 
than beautify. For instance, possibly there is an unpretty view from some of your windows, 
or porch — a cut-away embankment, an unkempt vacant lot, or the service yard of a 
neighbor's place with its attendant flapping line of clothes on wash-days. Or perhaps your 
neighbor is a bit careless and permits refuse to collect in his back yard. If so, the vista from 
your windows may be something like that shown in sketch No. 6. 
Sketch No. 6 
How much more pleasing the view would be if by planting Framingham Nursery 
stock you were to make it resemble something like Sketch No. 7. 
Such a screen is made up very similarly to the way we have already suggested for 
Foundation planting; using for the back (or outside) row any of the very tall growing 
shrubs listed on Page 26; with possibly a tree or two to give it point; see Page 28. In the 
next row (nearer your house) and on the ends of the back row, fairly tall or medium shrubs 
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