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important to have these distributed along its length so that 
at all times there will be the impression of floral abundance. 
Either of these borders might be used along a boundary 
according to whether the situation demanded plants for sun or 
shade; or tne two might be set end to end for a greater length 
if a sunny section followed a shady; or either might be repeated 
for greater length in the event of the need being for a hundred 
feet all in sun or all in shade. 
ANOTHER variation of the hardy border is to arrange it in 
i \ three or more continuous rows of successive bloomers, 
whereby its entire length will be in blossom at one time with 
the chosen flower. This is good for it gives the mass effect that 
is always highly desirable. Whatever the arrangement which 
you decide upon, keep ever before you this thought of mass, 
which will guard you against breaking the clumps into trivial 
proportions. A safe rule is never to plant less than three of 
anything and always to plant from six to a dozen if possible. 
In bordering a walk allow a turf edge from ten to twelve inches 
wide between walk and flower space. 
SHRUBBERY PLAN WITH TWO KEYS 
once — except on paper. Make the plan on paper for all of the 
work however before anything is done, in order to insure con- 
tinuity and a result that is good in all the ways that planting 
should be good — in design as well as service, and in all its as- 
pects. Some persons are unable to see the need of a plan and 
with difficulty bring themselves to follow one; but details of 
just where to set each shrub in a group are as necessary to good 
grouping and design as are details for the building of a house. 
And they are further the greatest help when the shrubs arrive 
and the task of getting them out of their bundles and into the 
ground is. at hand — for then is no time to try this way and that. 
S HRUBS should go from two and a half to four feet apart in 
planting a group, the lesser distance being between small 
and light kinds such as sometimes face down the foreground, or 
between tall growing, slim kinds — such as the Rose of Sharon — 
in the background. These distances are a constant source of 
dispute with your gardener possibly 
— even with others, perhaps. But 
remember that in the mass shrubs 
are not wanted as specimens. (1/ 
What is wanted is unbroken 
S HRUBS and shrubbery have been called the resource 
of the lazy man — but this seems hardly fair to either! 
For the shrubs are much too important to be rele- 
gated negligently to a mere assemblage of “bushes,” 
while the man may not be lazy at all and yet greatly dependent 
upon them. Indeed the shrub border, screen, or background 
planting is one of the most potent factors in the development 
of that gracious seclusion which the home demands, whether 
it is large or small. And though it is possible to dispense with 
the garden flowers both annual and perennial and yet have a 
lovely garden — and a great many blossoms as well — it is literally 
impossible to dispense with shrubs. 
For a beginning therefore plant shrubs — a few at corners of 
the boundary if for any reason an entire project cannot be under- 
taken at once, a mass to screen a roadway or to give it an excuse 
for the curve in it which convenience and other considerations 
may make desirable, a specimen at just the point where an 
accent is needed, and so on as your particular problem demands. 
But in doing even this fragmentary planting, keep to masses 
and never scatter it. If a space fifty feet long is to be planted, se- 
lect the eight shrubs that complete the group at one end and four 
let us say at the other, and plant these in their proper relations; 
and then fill in between these ends in subsequent operations 
until you have the mass completed in its entirety. Or reverse 
the scheme by starting with the central dozen shrubs and plant 
in either direction from these, if for any reason it is more im- 
portant to have something planted at this point first. 
Above all get rid of the idea that everything must be done at 
KEY TO SHRUBBERY 
thickets wherein the tops inter- 
mingle in a tangle of growth that 
offers an impenetrable barrier: and 
the individual shrub is of no con- 
sequence as an individual. Over 
and over it may be necessary to 
meet the argument that “they 
are getting no chance,” but never 
let this wear you out nor dismay 
you. They are getting no chance 
as specimens, true enough; but 
the shrubbery is getting its chance 
— and this is what is intended. 
For a series of individual shrubs 
set along in more or less distant 
company to give each its “chance,” 
results in a collection on the order 
of a curio or museum feature in- 
stead of in a framework for garden 
pictures. There is indeed what 
amounts to a perpetual conflict be- 
tween the horticultural and the pic- 
torial in matters of this kind, 
whether the material is large or 
small; and while the horticultural 
point of view must not be for- 
gotten it is essentially the pic- 
torial that must govern in all general 
plantings. 
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