. Amateur garden PLANTING THE LAWN HEN the lawn is made we begin to puzzle over the planting of trees and shrubbery. What shall we have? Where shall we have it? One of the commonest mistakes by the man who is his own gar- dener is that of over-planting the home-grounds with trees and shrubs. This mistake is made be- cause he does not look ahead and see, with the mind's eye, what the result will be, a few years from now, of the work he does to-day. The sapling of to-day will in a short time become a tree of good size, and the bush that seems hardly worth considering at present wi
. Amateur garden PLANTING THE LAWN HEN the lawn is made we begin to puzzle over the planting of trees and shrubbery. What shall we have? Where shall we have it? One of the commonest mistakes by the man who is his own gar- dener is that of over-planting the home-grounds with trees and shrubs. This mistake is made be- cause he does not look ahead and see, with the mind's eye, what the result will be, a few years from now, of the work he does to-day. The sapling of to-day will in a short time become a tree of good size, and the bush that seems hardly worth considering at present will develop into a shrub three, four, perhaps six feet across. If we plant closely, as we are all in- clined to because of the small size of the material we use at planting time, we will soon have a thicket, and it will be necessary to sacrifice most of the shrubs in order to give the few we leave sufficient room to develop in. Therefore do not 34. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rexford, Eben E. [from old catalog].
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