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attractive arrangement that hadn’t crossed their 
minds before. To get the very best plan at first, 
it is well, before you plant, to study all the ways 
in which you may plant, and all the forms into 
which trees and plants may be combined. 
We plant to secure beauty and to build useful 
arrangements of growing things. As means for 
accomplishing these ends, we arrange trees and 
shrubs in the form of live fences, or hedges, of 
windbreaks, shelter-groups, screens, single speci¬ 
mens, ground-covers, and even in forests. We aim 
to get shade, colors in leaves during fall, winter, 
spring and summer, colors and fragrance in blos¬ 
soms; aim to provide homes for birds, try to pro¬ 
vide attractive-looking surroundings, to punctuate 
the sky-line and to secure general beauty of land¬ 
scape. A planting may be something to play with 
and work over, or it may be able to take care of 
itself, just as we select the trees and shrubs. In 
any case, a planting should be made up to suit your 
conditions. 
Now, it is “up to you” to decide the proper 
quantity of hedge and shade and protection and 
color. Our wish is to see that you overlook no 
opportunities when you are making your plans. The 
foregoing is a brief outline of what forms your 
planting may take, and here following are sugges¬ 
tions of good trees and shrubs that may be used to 
make up each form. 
For hedges , Privet is best three-fourths of the 
time. Its usefulness is explained in other parts of 
this book. The other time in four, however, you 
may want a bigger hedge or a smaller one. Hem¬ 
lock and Norway Spruce make a hedge 12 feet 
high and 10 feet thick, if you let them grow with¬ 
out trimming, while with Barberry or Boxwood you 
may have a hedge only 6 inches high. American 
Arborvitse, is another good evergreen for hedges, 
and Azaleas, Rhododendron, Euonymus, and 
Hydrangea also make big hedges. 
For shade under average conditions nothing is 
better than Norway Maples. All the other shade 
trees in our list are valuable in some way, and they 
should be planted when they are suitable. Read 
the descriptions, and you can tell what each kind 
is good for and whether or not it appeals to you. 
Windbreaks and shelter-groups may be made 
with any of the shade trees, preferably the thickest 
ones, but evergreens give the most protection. 
Norway, Blue and Douglas Spruces, the Pines, 
American Arborvitse, Nordmann’s and White Firs 
are excellent for this purpose. Mixed deciduous 
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