Art Out-of-Doors 
porches, steps, or bay-windows, carry them 
along in lower groups, then break them, 
and for a little space let the foundations be 
seen resting on the grass, in order that their 
stability may be clearly manifest, and then, 
in another angle, place another more im- 
portant group. Take the outline of the 
house and the character of its features as 
your guide, and accent these while uniting 
the building, as a whole, with its site. 
And do not conceal beautiful adjacent feat- 
ures, but sedulously “ plant out” those 
which, like out-houses and drying-yards, 
should not be seen. 
Plant closely at first and then, as the in- 
dividuals develop, thin out those which are 
no longer needed, for crowded, ill-grown 
shrubs are as ineffective as a garment for the 
walls as painful to the eye of the true lover 
of plants. Each shrub should be well de- 
veloped and have room to display its pe- 
culiar habit, and the masses, as a whole, 
should have that play of light and shade and 
that freedom of movement which are ruined 
by overcrowding. Above all, never shear off 
the tops of these shrubs to a horizontal line, 
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