. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 459 but suckers and layers are apt to be more imperfect in this respect. Fig. iKK, b, represents a common stool of . Fici- '55. suckers and their roots, which may be divided to make several plants, each with a root. The single stems, rooted all aro
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extend : illustrated by upward of two hundred plates and engravings of plans for residences and their grounds, of trees and shrubs, and garden embellishments ; with descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 459 but suckers and layers are apt to be more imperfect in this respect. Fig. iKK, b, represents a common stool of . Fici- '55. suckers and their roots, which may be divided to make several plants, each with a root. The single stems, rooted all around, like the one marked a, are much better plants than those with roots on one side only as shown at c. It will be seen at a glance that the latter are much more likely to make lop-sided shrubs. Where it is desired to confine a shrub to a single stem, a plant rooted like the one at a is indispensable ; but for those shrubs which sucker and sprout so inveterately that they cannot be confined to a single heart or trunk, plants like those shown at b and c will answer as well. In the former case all the buds that can be seen that would be below the line of ground surface after plant- ing should be carefully cut out. The top should then be encouraged to branch low, otherwise suckers will spring from the roots in spite of all attempt to keep them back. It is a common mistake of those who experiment to make tree-like shrubs, to trim up the stems from the first. This at once lessens the vigor of the stem just where it needs to be strengthened. To grow a shrub on a single trunk, strong low branches must be encouraged, and these, resting upon and shading the ground around the stem will usually lessen the tendency to suckers, which is worse in many-stemmed and " trimmed-up" shrubs. The advantage of a central trunk for some shrubs is not in the sight of tall bare stems which at once destroy the shrubby effect which shrubs are planted to produce, but rather for their greater neat
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