secretary's budget. 355 



for this purpose, one dollar. As 500 trees can be grown on an acre of 

 land, it is evident that on land that can be bought for ten dollars per 

 acre it would be a profitable tree to grow simply for posts. 



LAWN EMBELLISHMENTS. 



Shrubs are valued for their bloom as well as for form and foliage. 

 Each variety will serve some special end. As a rule plant in irregular 

 groups as directed for trees. At projecting points in shrub masses, 

 plant some hardy herbaceous perennials. Use vines for porches or for 

 covering a half dead tree-top or rubbish pile. Plant flowers mostly at 

 the side of the house in irregular but gracefully-shaped beds, and 

 about the trunks of trees when they are young, perhaps. No special 

 paths are needed about flower or shrub groups. Rock work is seldom 

 satisfactorj'^, and is only appropriate in a retired portion of the grounds. 

 A pile of shells, rocks and scoria in the front yard is sadly out of place. 

 Hesp them in some back and shady corner and you will find great 

 •delight in transplanting from the woods and meadows anassortment 

 of hepaticas, spring beauties, blood root, trilliums, bellworts, phloxes 

 and ferns. If you have a pond near by, introduce some water lillies, 

 cat-tail flags, pickerel weed, arrow head, and near by set some weeping 

 willows and birches and ashes. Do not despise flower, shrub or tree 

 because it is native or ''common." As a rule the best known is better 

 than the imported variety. Give thought and attention to all the de- 

 tails of making a pleasant home. It is a worthy work. You will be 

 surprised to find how much beauty can be attained at little cost, and 

 how rapidly everything hastens forward to the completed plan in your 

 own mind. You will have a constant comfort and a fresh hope real- 

 ized every year as the trees grow, and transformation follows trans- 

 formation toward the fulfillment of your original design. 



Prof. W. J. Beal. 



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HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS. 



In a paper before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mr. E. L. 

 Beard recommended herbaceous perennial plants as being handsomer, 

 cheaper and more reliable than such bedding plants as require winter- 

 ing within doors and annual setting out. He named the following as 

 the m >st desirable : The Funkias, of which there are several species ; 

 several of the Hemerocallis ; Jackman's clematis; the Campanulas, 

 including carpatica and persicifolia ; the double and single pyre- 

 thrums; the red and white Dictamnus ; the several species and many 

 ■varieties of Phlox ; the white, martagon, and Japan lillies j the white 



