Excerpt from A Partial List of Plants Available for Various Uses in General Landscape Planting B. (as edgings for walks and garden borders). Low growing types of shrubs (under normal conditions not exceeding 24 in height) lending themselves to frequent clipping and shearing. These shrubs are often used in edging formal garden walks, pools, and beds of plantings. In general, most of these shrubs require a very small amount of pruning, to maintain their close-growing compact habit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.