120 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
as it is with evergreens, although it is always 
apparent and decidedly in evidence. A mass 
of shrubbery is better for being made up of 
six or seven kinds instead of fifteen or twenty; 
a group of trees likewise must be limited in 
varieties; and flowers lose in effect in inverse 
ratio to the number of colors and kinds which 
a single mass contains. But in none of these 
is there such striking disharmony as in a group 
of many kinds of evergreens, partly because 
the former are not confined when growing in 
the wild to groups containing only one variety, 
perhaps, while evergreens almost invariably 
are: largely because the individuality of ever- 
greens is much more marked, and many kinds 
in combination never blend in the slightest 
degree, as deciduous growth does. On the 
contrary each specimen stands apart, however 
close it may be put to its neighbors, protesting 
and indignant at the affront which such treat- 
ment imposes. 
While the small place may be allowed two 
kinds of deciduous tree therefore — that is a 
single dogwood perhaps and a single linden or 
wafer ash — it should never be planted with 
more than one kind of evergreen. Several of 
this one kind may find space, but however 
large the number possible, never allow but the 
