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to good effect with cut flowers, or if allowed to grow, in its own wild 

 grandeur, will give a fine variety to background. 



The Altheas are not quite so good to get established, but generally, 

 after they get to be some age, they do well. I would advise buying 

 plants from a good reliable firm that have them established, and pay a 

 little more for them, than to buy very small plants shipped in from the 

 East and try to get a start with them. They are such a grand 

 shrub when in full bloom in August and September when most of our 

 other hardy flowers are scarce that they will repay a little extra trouble 

 to get them established. If you have a corner tor them, sheltered from 

 the northwest, so much the better. 



Although there are a number of other shrubs that do well with us, 

 there is not time in one paper to try to describe them all. I have tried 

 tc keep to some of the most hardy and easily grown for I think there is 

 much more pleasure and satisfaction in a healthy, thrifty looking plant 

 of any kind (even if they do not cost so much, than in something you 

 have to putter and fuss with to keep it in existence, spending a lot 

 of time over it and then have it die, and then decide that shrubs are 

 no good and will not grow for you. Plant shrubs, plenty of them. We 

 can make a beautiful landscape with comparatively few flowers but we 

 must have shrubs. 



There is not another thing that will give a cozy, homelike appearance 

 to a residence, whether a cottage or a palace in the city or on the farm, 

 like a liberal use of shrubs. 



The Chairman: Is there any discussion? 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Youngers: 1 don't exactly get the name of that privet. 



Mr. Edinborough: I don't know it by any other name. It is one of 

 the Japanese variety. It will certainly bear all the expression I could 

 give it in praise. I think it is the best. It did not kill back six inches. 



Mr. Brown: What we need is an ornamental hedge that will stand 

 the winter, I saw in Fremont last summer a hedge of spiraea, I saw 

 two of them, one of a new growth, and the other ready to bloom. I 

 thought the new growth the handsomer of the two. 



Mrs. Harrison: I have not had very good luck with the privet. 



Mr. Edinborough: After I got it started it went right on and did 

 well. It is the northwest wind and frost that is bad for it. 



The Chairman: If there is no further discussion, we will take up 

 the next paper, which is on "Hints on Landscaping," by Mr. W. H. 

 Dunman, landscape gardener. University of Nebraska. 



HINTS ON LANDSCAPING. 



W. H. DUNMAN, LANDSCAPE GARDENER, UNIVERSITY ni NKURASKA. 



Some of the greatest triumphs in landscape gardening have been 

 achieved in knowing exactly what to leave alone. How far the idea 



