. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 29. A large-leaved niootiana. given a better chance to grow. Inwild nature there is such fierce strug-gle for existence that plants usually 30. The awkward century plantthat has been laboriously car-ried over winter year by yearin the cellar: compare withother plants here shown as toits value as a lawn subject. THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 39 grow to few or single stems, and they are sparse and scragglyinform; but once given all the room they want
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 29. A large-leaved niootiana. given a better chance to grow. Inwild nature there is such fierce strug-gle for existence that plants usually 30. The awkward century plantthat has been laboriously car-ried over winter year by yearin the cellar: compare withother plants here shown as toits value as a lawn subject. THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE 39 grow to few or single stems, and they are sparse and scragglyinform; but once given all the room they want and a goodsoil, they become luxurious, full, and comely. In most homegrounds in the country the body of the planting may be veryeffectively composed of bushes taken from the adjacent woodsand fields. The masses may then be enlivened by the addi-tion here and there of cultivated bushes, and the planting of m. 31. Making a picture with rhubarb. flowers and herbs about the borders* It is not essential thatone know the names of these wild bushes, although a knowl-edge of their botanical kinships will add greatly to the pleas-ure of growing them. Neither will they look common whentransferred to the lawn. There are not many persons who knoweven the commonest wild bushes intimately, and the thingschange so much in looks when removed to rich ground thatfew home-makers recognize them. 40 MANUAL OF GARDENING Odd and formal trees. It is but a corollary of this discussion to say that plants whichare simply odd or grotesque or unusual should be used with thegreatest caution, for they introduce extraneous and jarringeffects. They are little in sympathy with a landscape artist would not care to paint an evergreen that is shearedinto some grotesque shape. It is only curious, and shows what
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