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Title: The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. With descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, Frank J. (Frank Jesup), 1828-1919
Subjects: Landscape gardening Suburban homes Trees -- United States
Publisher: New York American Book Exchange
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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propriate place for a skillful arrangement of showy-leaved bedding-plants ; but as there is ample space for these elsewhere, we wouldmuch prefer marking the intersection of the two walks with somepermanent objects that may be seen in winter and summer, andwhich, by living and growing year after year, will at length haveassociations and a little history of their own, and become monu-mental evidences of past labors. It is well always to mark thedivergence of two walks by some permanent tree or group near theinner angle of intersection, and in the case under consideration, ifthe group of lilliputian evergreens should seem too insignificant andtardy in their development, or (being rarities) too expensive, wewould plant some spreading tree at this intersection, and recom-mend for that purpose the weeping birch. From / andy, on opposite sides of the lot, tlie side fencesshould be bordered with evergreen shrubs as far as the backline of the main house, and thence to the garden may be covered
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Hemlock ArrfL . too no no TO ao so to 30 w to AND GROUNDS. 211 with grape-vines or other small fruits, or with a continuous beltof common deciduous shrubs. Against the foundation-walls of thehouse we would plant a continuous line of varieties of the Englishiv), even if they creep permanently no higher than the water-table.Up to that height they often make a shrubby mass of evergreenfoliage, and form a pleasing back-ground for the finer shrubs thatmay be grown near the house in front of them. For a runningvine on brick and stone walls, and for draping windows and cor-nices with foliage, the American ivy or Virginia creeper is greatlysuperior in this country to the English ivy. We can go no furtherin designating the shrubs to plant near the house-walls than tomerely reiterate that they should be of those flowering and fragrantvarieties which are usually fuU-foliaged, not apt to get bare of leavesat the bottom, and which do not exceed six feet in height; in short,low, compact, or spreadi

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