. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . ^ N the borders of shrubberies, smaller detachedgroups and specimen trees, must form a grad-ual transition between the denser plantationand the more open spaces of lawn. Thereshould be no sudden change from one sceneryto another, no rigorously marked borders of any better impression will be made if narrow stretchesof lawn run far in among groves and shrubbery andfinally vanish in an undergrowth of shrubs and FIG. 50. -FINE PLANTING, SHOWING EFFECT OF LIGHT AND SHADE. To create this ap
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . ^ N the borders of shrubberies, smaller detachedgroups and specimen trees, must form a grad-ual transition between the denser plantationand the more open spaces of lawn. Thereshould be no sudden change from one sceneryto another, no rigorously marked borders of any better impression will be made if narrow stretchesof lawn run far in among groves and shrubbery andfinally vanish in an undergrowth of shrubs and FIG. 50. -FINE PLANTING, SHOWING EFFECT OF LIGHT AND SHADE. To create this appearance is the chief purpose of detached groups and specimen trees. Specimens should also appeal 9o IDetacbeB Groups anfc Specimen plants. 91 to our sense of beauty individually, through exquisite formsand colors. In planting these groups, three or more shrubs may bearranged together in a free manner, so as to form a beau-tiful outline. They should consist of the very finest flower-
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