A luxuriant growth of vines is one of the greatest adjuncts to the beautifying of any home or building. A 
porch covered with clinging green is deliciously cool and secluded during the hot summer days. A common 
wire fence, dead tree trunks and bare walls are most picturesque where softened by their delicate tracery. 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
Shrubs are the material 
and basis for all planting 
and the success of any 
landscape depends large- 
ly upon their quality and 
the taste with which they 
are planted. They should 
be placed on the lawn as 
an artist dispenses his fig- 
ures over a canvas. For 
by this placing, distances 
are enhanced or dimin- 
ished, hollows filled or 
terraces raised in effect. 
When shrubs are planted 
singly great care should 
be taken to secure only 
the best specimens and 
these of symmetrical pro- 
portions. In clumps or 
masses shrubs are most 
effective and the endeav- 
or should be to secure a 
succession of bloom 
throughout the season. 
