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should be kept well to the sides and back. 
It is always safe to aim to have as great 
an unbroken stretch of lawn as possible; 
then, if the flower beds and borders are 
kept near the walks and drives or about 
the house or just in front of the shrub 
borders, which should be along the boun¬ 
dary line, you will be able to make the 
most of the material at your disposal. 
The second is, in planting the mixed 
shrubbery border, avoid straight lines; 
the outer edge of the bed should resemble 
a seacoast in miniature, with points, capes 
and peninsulas jutting out into the lawn. 
The taller shrubs should, of course, be 
kept at the back and the shorter ones in 
the foreground of the bed. 
The third is to maintain natural vistas, 
or to create artificial ones which will look 
natural. Even on the small place, where 
there is no mountain or valley or lake that 
must not be shut off by the shrubbery 
plantings, there is usually a good deal of 
choice as to outlook which should be pre¬ 
served, and the things which should be 
hidden from sight. It is almost always 
desirable to get the effect of spaciousness. 
The efficiency shown in your handling of 
shrubs will depend to a great extent upon 
how well you succeed in doing this. Tall 
background shrubs planted thickly along 
the boundaries give an effect from the 
inside of “something beyond.” A turn at 
the end of an arbor or vista, though it 
may be but a dense shrub or two against 
a blank wall, gives the impression that 
is not the end, but that it leads somewhere 
else. 
On the very small place, or some par¬ 
ticular part of the large place, it is often 
desirable to accomplish just the opposite 
result, to create the effect of seclusion, 
aloofness and safe sanctuary from the 
madding crowd. But when that is at¬ 
tempted it should be intentional and com¬ 
plete. No vista should open out upon any 
immediate landscape; the privacy aimed at 
should be without a peakhole. Such gar¬ 
dens are often the most delightful; in 
them one seems to become more intimate 
with the carefully tended flowers, and the 
birds—for birds will always find such a 
garden and appropriate its beauties as 
naturally as they take to the newly erected 
birdhouse. And shrubs must be depended 
upon for the framework of the secluded 
garden. Walls? A wall may be but a foot 
and a half thick; and one always has the 
feeling that one’s good neighbor's laun¬ 
dress is hanging out the wash—and listen¬ 
ing for any stray bits of conversation — 
just over it. But the thicket border of 
shrubs, for all one can tell from the in¬ 
side of it, may be the border of a track¬ 
less wood, a mile from the nearest neigh¬ 
bor, and quiet enough for you to catch 
through the leaves an occasional glimpse 
of Pan himself. 
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Their whole tendency is to 
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prices and stabilizing them. 
National advertising 
gains for a manufacturer 
the volume which is neces¬ 
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Iris 
/'VVER 25 distinct varieties; 
V' may be set now and estab¬ 
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Also several forms of Iris pumila, 
- Japanese iris and Siberian 
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