Flowering Shrubs 
LOWERING shrubs play a very important role in the develop¬ 
ment of the Home Landscape. Unfortunately, they are often the 
subject of misuse and wrong treatment. Through unwise selec¬ 
tion of varieties, poor arrangement in the planting and improper 
trimming the average shrub border is not often a thing of beauty. By 
choosing the better varieties of shrubs and carefully arranging them for 
height, texture of foliage and time of flowering, a shrub border may be 
most interesting throughout the year. 
There are flowering shrubs of one kind or another in bloom from 
February to December and when you add to this the fact that many of 
them have brilliant fall foliage or berries of various hues their true value 
and importance is reali2,ed. 
One of the greatest mistakes is to crowd shrubs together too 
closely. They should be given room enough to develop their own in¬ 
dividuality. Of course, thick planting is fine for immediate effect if they 
are thinned out in time, but a crowded shrub border is soon little more 
than a jungle of twiggy growth with a minimum of flowers. At that 
stage it is difficult to thin out properly and usually ends in an entire new 
planting. 
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