Garden planning and planting . specimen shrub or tree. Include deciduous as well as evergreenkinds, because there is greater beauty where the two are judiciouslyarranged together. Q. Where an amateur is engaged in putting plants in a newgarden must he plant closely, or how ought he to proceed ? A. If he is about to put in shrubs and trees to form clumps andalso handsome specimens, he should enter his house, stand at thewindows, and direct another person, with stakes and white paper, to 134 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING drive in the stakes and fix paper to the top, in positions where hewishes to
Garden planning and planting . specimen shrub or tree. Include deciduous as well as evergreenkinds, because there is greater beauty where the two are judiciouslyarranged together. Q. Where an amateur is engaged in putting plants in a newgarden must he plant closely, or how ought he to proceed ? A. If he is about to put in shrubs and trees to form clumps andalso handsome specimens, he should enter his house, stand at thewindows, and direct another person, with stakes and white paper, to 134 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING drive in the stakes and fix paper to the top, in positions where hewishes to have his chief or permanent specimens. This can best bedecided from the windows of the dwelling-house. Then, havingplanted the permanent trees or shrubs, the owner should put inothers to fill up, that is, to give to the garden, or more particularlythe clumps, a finished appearance. In due course the inferiorspecimens can be lifted, or cut out as the permanent ones requiremore space, until at last the latter occupy the In Fig. 1, A shows the dwelling-house, B, B, specimen shrubs andtrees ; c, c, c, clumps of shrubs. The dotted lines show the open viewfrom the windows. This is the best way to dispose trees, shrubs,and clumps so that a garden appears to be a large one, though it mayactually be quite small. Fig. 2 shows a small villa garden facingsouth-west. In this instance the tallest growing trees and shrubs areplanted on the north side ; they thus break the force of the cold northwinds and do not obstruct the suns rays, as would be the case if theygrew on the other side of the garden, a denotes the house ; b, thegarden path ; c, c, c, fiower beds and two specimen shrubs on thesmall lawn. Fig. 3 shows how to plant evergreen trees and shrubs on PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS 135
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