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become luxurious, lull aud comely. In most home grounds in 

 this state, the body of the planting may be very effectively made 

 by the use of bushes taken from adjacent woods and fields. The 

 masses mav then be enlivened bv the addition here and there of 

 cultivated bushes, and the planting of flowers and herbs about 

 the borders. It is not essential that one know the names of these 

 wild bushes, although a knowledge of their botanical features 



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will add greatly to the pleasure of growing them. Neither will 

 they look common when transferred to the lawn. There are 

 very few people who know even the commonest wild bushes 

 intimately, and the bushes change so much in looks when re- 

 moved to rich grounds that few people recognize them. I have 

 a mass of shrubbery which is much admired, and visitors are 

 always asking me what the bushes are; yet I dug the roots in 

 the neighborhood. 



