Gardening in California, landscape and flower . , that form and habit should be studied much moreclosely than any other quality. In planning the groups it may be found desirable and effec-tive to form some entirely of evergreens, others entirely of de-ciduous trees and shrubs, and others of a mixture of both, a verygood combination being a group of our native Laurel and theEuropean Linden, because both are of the same graceful habitof growth. The same rule applies to the planting of shrubbery masses;the stiff and the formal should never be associated with therounded, free-spreading kinds,—that
Gardening in California, landscape and flower . , that form and habit should be studied much moreclosely than any other quality. In planning the groups it may be found desirable and effec-tive to form some entirely of evergreens, others entirely of de-ciduous trees and shrubs, and others of a mixture of both, a verygood combination being a group of our native Laurel and theEuropean Linden, because both are of the same graceful habitof growth. The same rule applies to the planting of shrubbery masses;the stiff and the formal should never be associated with therounded, free-spreading kinds,—that is, the kinds whose limbsspread wide and rest gracefully on the surface of the lawn. In the disposition of a number of sorts of trees and shrubsin the landscape, the same principle must be followed in produc-ing variety and harmony. If they are mixed together in ahaphazard way, the results will very rarely be pleasing, but,at the same time, monotony must be guarded against. Forexample, groups of Oaks should not be followed by groups of [14]. Planning the Ground headed trees, but rather by a mass formed of such trees as theCalifornian Laurel, while next to the Laurel might come thePoplar or some other tree of similar column-shaped head andsymmetry. Then again, when groups meet, they might some-times be blended together. For example, a group of Oaks,adjoining a group of Californian Laurels, might be blended intothe Laurel group, by the Oaks being planted so as to overlap theLaurels and the Laurels the Oaks, as is to be found in naturalgroups. The same rule applies to shrubs and even to flowers at theextreme points of the groups. When a group of Pines adjoins a group of Live Oaks, it isalways desirable to blend the two at the junction of the onewith the other, care being taken to avoid regular progression andeverything like formality, and it being borne in mind thatgrounds laid out according to simple plans are generally muchmore pleasing than those laid out on overpretentious
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