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used in the background and lighter foliage in 
the foreground, and if there is more variety 
of hue near the eye than farther back, the 
shrubbery will gain in depth and richness of 
effect. 
Natural development, I say, is what we 
want in a base - line of shrubs and vines 
where the home-grounds are naturalistically 
treated ; and quiet green must be the dom- 
inant color. But there are certain brilliant 
color-effects, of a transitory sort, which the 
planter would be foolish, nay, culpable, to 
neglect. I mean the color - effects which 
will come and go as the blossoms of vines 
and shrubs open and wither. So vast is the 
variety of species bearing conspicuous flow- 
ers that one might easily plant a great 
shrubbery which, at a given moment, would 
hardly show a green leaf at all. But this is 
not what we want around house-foundations. 
We want shrubs which will blossom succes- 
sively, one unfolding its flowers as the flow- 
ers of its neighbors fade, and all together 
giving us at all seasons a general mass of 
green with here and there a lovely bouquet 
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