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about the door yard. The flowering shrubs must be given 

 a place; with little effort one can obtain the snowball, the 

 honeysuckle and the lilac, with its nodding plumes and its 

 sweet fragrance, and the dear old roses, that are always 

 new. O how many memories are folded in their sweet 

 petals; long ago we gathered them in dewy freshness on a 

 sweet June morning to place at the dear mother's side, as 

 we laid her to rest in the country churchyard. 



The special arrangement of plants and flowers add much 

 to their pleasing effect. Where space is limited, we know 

 of no simple device more satisfactory than a window box, 

 placed upon brackets just below the window, on the outside 

 of the dwelling. In this box the upright, blossoming plants 

 are very showy and trailing ones very graceful. For a cot- 

 tage this is especially adapted. 



Within the dwelling, a narrow shelf at the bottom of the 

 window is very convenient for an ivy or smilax, and when- 

 ever you wish it can be removed to a bracket to enclose a 

 picture. Those who love flowers will in some way find a 

 place for a few house plants to brighten their rooms when 

 all the green things of earth are sleeping beneath the snow. 



The vegetable garden must be added to this home. All its 

 products can be grown and harvested for future use in a few 

 short months; the fruits of the annual vines mature in mid- 

 summer and are a luxury in any house. 



If the strawberry bed has been planted, a second season 

 will give its delicious fruit, and later the fruit garden will 

 yield from shrub and vine its berries and its grapes. The 

 growing orchard in due time will give its rosy and golden 

 apples, and trees and plants and flowers and fruits will all 

 combine to make this home beautiful to behold and delight- 

 ful to possess. 



We have in mind a home like this, where a dozen kinds of 

 trees upon the lawn can be counted from the verandah, 

 where there are flowering shrubs and beds of bright annu- 

 als; and beyond the lawn is the garden, where vegetables of 

 many kinds are grown, and berries and grapes of many va- 

 rieties, and the orchard, too, where can be found the early 

 and late apples. There are many children in this home and 



