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need protection, or you will find neither pleasure or profit in 

 them. You are all familiar with the double Flowering Almond, the 

 Mexican Flowering Currant with its wonderful fragrance, the snow 

 ball and the lilac family. There is a place for every thing, and 

 the lilac should have its corner undisturbed, where its suckers will 

 not intrude upon choicer friends. There is such a large class of 

 flowering shrubs that claim hardiness, beauty and perfection, it 

 would seem to a person not initiated, that our grounds might 

 bloom from spring to fall and never fail from frost or drouth or 

 blight; but alas the imperfections of human nature and some of 

 its flowering shrubs. The list is too long, the task too difficult, 

 even if experience had had no failure ; we add to the list men- 

 tioned as deserving your consideration, Spireas in variety, Tartarian 

 Honeysuckles, Syringas, Deutzias, Eed Bud, Strawberry Tree and 

 Berberry. 



Herbaceous plants, when once started, need little care and are a 

 joy forever ; Dyelytras, Delphinneums, Lillies, Paeonies in vari- 

 ety, the earliest of which is Fennel leaf ; herbaceous Clematis, 

 Ash leaf Spirea, and (don't forget) the Lily of the . with 



all its modesty and wonderful fragrance. 



Perhaps you may expect a word on Annuals — well, plant 

 them, but take a little trouble and obtain dirt enough from the 

 woods to cover your beds at least four inche3 deep, and if this is 

 drawn and lays in a well rotted compost heap a year before 

 using, it will be all the belter; cover your beds with sand, then 

 sow your seed, hardly covering it at all, but put on lath over each 

 row, leaving them on till the seeds sprout. If dry, you can water, 

 and the lath will protect at any time. It is better to plant some 

 kinds in shallow boxes, and then transplant at a favorable time, 

 using brush for a shade; both ways are best. Those who love it, 

 and can take the time, enjoy it ; but often the drouth or the weeds 

 take the sweet all out of it. 



Climbing vines cannot be dispensed with. Every out build- 

 ing should have its Virginia Creeper ; every veranda its Climbing 

 Rose in variety — the Queen for its beauty, the Gem for its 

 delicious fragrance, the Belle for variety, and the Michigan for 

 its late blooming, variegated clusters. Add others in profusion. 



