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strong and rapid-growing plant should ever 

 be put beside one that is of slow growth and 

 delicate habit, or the former will sooner or 

 later smother the latter. 



Never plant rubbish. Do not be persuaded 

 by your friends "just to fill up your garden 

 with anything to make a show the first year.'' 

 This is the greatest mistake, for you may 

 afterwards have difficulty in getting rid of 

 what you planted merely as a " stop-gap.** 



A word of warning may not be out of 

 place with regard to very strong and rampant- 

 growing plants, especially those that have a 

 creeping rootstock, for great discretion will 

 have to be exercised in planting them owing 

 to the difficulty of removing them when once 

 established behind some large rock. Nothing 

 in the shape of a rampant grower should be 

 planted in the part of the garden reserved for 

 the choicer kinds. The wild garden is the 

 place for such dangerous characters, for their 

 encroaching habits will not so much matter 

 there. 



I speak from experience. In a weak mo- 

 ment, and I must confess in ignorance of its 



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