138 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
demand a 
great deal 
of re- 
straint in 
the han- 
dling of 
the garden 
material, 
shrubbery 
is the one 
thing 
which sim- 
ply cannot 
be subject- 
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3 c cvV e. 
XV — Shrubbery Group. 
ed to formal treatment with satisfactory results, 
but must be used as Nature uses it. Certain 
shrubs lend themselves readily enough to the 
carrying out of more or less formal lines, to be 
sure; but shrubbery collectively, being in its 
very nature broadly pictorial, must be pic- 
turesquely disposed. The aim should always 
be to produce with it a mass — an impenetrable 
thicket of interlacing boughs; and as a matter 
of fact shrubbery rightly massed will be almost 
as effectual a screen in winter, with its 
branches bare, as in summer when they are 
in full leaf. Forget that such a thing as a 
shrub exists; look at them in the aggregate 
