. The little garden. of peonies, in athoroughly graceful and satisfying manner. These spireas weplanted a foot apart, in a line — the best method for all decidu-ous plants for hedges. They were set when two feet high. Forthe evergreen or non-deciduous hedge, I prefer always Americanarbor-vitse, when it can be had. But it is very costly, and itslife is a bit precarious in certain soils and dimates. Box is, ofcourse, the material for southern climates; but box too is costly,and sometimes fitful in behavior. A combination of two, large shrubs exceptionally good is bushhoneysuckle {Lonicera bella
. The little garden. of peonies, in athoroughly graceful and satisfying manner. These spireas weplanted a foot apart, in a line — the best method for all decidu-ous plants for hedges. They were set when two feet high. Forthe evergreen or non-deciduous hedge, I prefer always Americanarbor-vitse, when it can be had. But it is very costly, and itslife is a bit precarious in certain soils and dimates. Box is, ofcourse, the material for southern climates; but box too is costly,and sometimes fitful in behavior. A combination of two, large shrubs exceptionally good is bushhoneysuckle {Lonicera bella albida) for the back of a planting,and Spirea prunifolia before it; for another equally fine, — andI have seen these growing superbly among, yes, actually amongthe roots of a great ash tree, — use philadelphus, one of the tallvarieties like grandiflora, and Forsythia suspensa, or an uprightvariety of the latter. A beautiful willow sometimes grown inshrub form is Salix pentandra, with its shining dark leaf; the. Spirea above iris ENCLOSING THE GARDEN 31 growth of this is very rapid. The cockspur thorn {Cratcegus Crus-galli) is a great favorite among good planters, for its summerbeauty and fine autumn fruit. A good simple rule for the informal planting of such shrubs foran enclosing border, given by Mr. , is this: Straightrows should be avoided. A laborer or novice, when told this, willarrange the plants in a zig-zag manner, thinking that he is plac-ing them irregularly, the result often being almost the same asthat of two rows. If the group is being planted along a straightline, as the boundary of a lot, the distance of the successiveplants from this line ought to be somewhat as follows: two feet,foiu: feet, five feet, three feet, one foot; and the distance apart,measiued parallel with a fixed line, should vary also. Thisdefinite idea of measurement can very well be used to lay downthe guiding hose mentioned in a later paragraph (page 48). In the use of shrubs f
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