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portion from another. Here, also, it is essential that the 
soil be deeply dug and manured before planting. Trees 
and shrubs need a deep soil and a generous diet to ensure 
their thriving well from the start. Where trees are re- 
quired to shelter the garden from north or east winds, 
rapid-growing kinds like the Birch, Poplar, and Sycamore, 
interspersed with such evergreen trees as the Norway 
Spruce and the Austrian Pine, should be planted round the 
boundaries. In years to follow, these may be thinned out 
if needs be. Inside this belt trees of a more ornamental 
character, either in leaf or flower, may be planted, inter- 
mixed with deciduous and evergreen shrubs. Flowering 
trees and shrubs should certainly be freely used. They 
may cost more than common laurels, privet, and the like, 
but they will more than repay the extra cost by the great 
beauty and variety of their flowers in spring and summer. 
Common shrubs may be used for temporarily filling up 
spaces between the choicer kinds, but they should be 
promptly cleared away as soon as the choicer ones attain 
a fair size. Among the flowering trees we strongly recom- 
mend are the Horse-chestnut, Laburnum, Almond, Peach, 
Scarlet and Pink Hawthorn, Double Cherry, Flowering 
Crabs, and Snowy Mespilus. As to the flowering shrubs, 
Spiraeas, Philadelphuses, Diervillas, Cytisuses, Magnolias, 
Ribes, Prunuses, and a host of others, which are described 
in the section devoted to Flowering Trees and Shrubs. 
With these and Silver-leaved Maples, Scarlet Oak, Golden 
Limes, and other coloured-leaved kinds, a shrubbery may 
be made a feature of great, varied, and lasting interest. 
On the margins of shrubberies hardy plants and bulbs may 
be grown to good effect, and in among the shrubs blue 
bells may be cultivated to yield a plethora of blossom in 
the spring. Indeed, a shrubbery need not be the dull, 
commonplace feature it often is in gardens where over- 
crowded with commonplace and neglected trees and 
shrubs. A charming feature in gardens of sufficient ex- 
tent, would be beds or groups of Rhododendrons and 
hardy Azaleas intermixed ; or Kalmias, Andromedas, 
Daphnes, and Heaths. Nor are the claims of the many 
lovely forms of Lilacs to be overlooked for grouping on 
the fringe of lawns or shrubberies. One might, in fact, 
