320 State Horticultural Society. 



by banking up a few low-growing plants against the wall under the 

 window itself. 



If there are unsightly out-buildings, back fences, or other ob- 

 jects which would be better obscured, it is better to bank up the 

 shrubs and flowers in front of them in masses. A coal shed or 

 unsightly back fence, that may be an eye-sore from the front, may 

 be a splendid background against which to plant a mass of vines or 

 low growing shrubs and flowers. These placed in front of it, 

 using it as a background, may be a thing of beauty. 



Shrubs and flowers may be massed in the corners or angles 

 of the yard, or in the rear, so that they will show as banks slop- 

 ing toward the front view from the street. It is best to plant the 

 tallest specimens in the rear of the mass, and the lower ones, or 

 flowering plants, in front, so the bank of foliage slopes somewhat 

 toward the point of view. Usually the best place for the small 

 flowers is not in the formal bed, where they have nothing but the 

 green lawn against which to be seen, but massed right in the front 

 edge of the shrubbery bank, so that they have shrubs or vines for 

 a background against which to show. Where shrubs are planted, 

 they should be massed close enough so their branches will touch, 

 and the angles and nooks between them may be filled with flowers. 

 Arranged in this way, a single flowering plant, or even a shrub bor- 

 der, will brighten up the whole border. Each mass of plants should 

 be considered with reference to the whole place, either to help 

 frame it in, to soften an angle, or hide a back fence, or to fill an 

 angle in a walk, so as to show a reason for the walk turning at that 

 particular point. 



Shade trees are best placed where they will furnish the nec- 

 essary shade for the buildings on the grounds. In warm climates 

 this may be over the south or west porch or along the walk* Place 

 them, other things being equal, where shade is needed. Usually a 

 good effect may be secured if a number of them are used to the rear 

 of the house and to over-shade an outbuilding, pump or other ob- 

 ject which it is desired to screen with foliage. 



BEE-KEEPING IN RELATION TO HORTICULTURE. 



(By J. W. Rouse, President Missouri Bee-Keepers Asisociation, Mexico, Mo.) 



With pleasure I note the very pleasant relations between the 

 bee-keepers and horticulturists of Missouri. 



We can be of benefit to each other without damage to either. 



