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people are found in the back part of our homes more than in the front, 

 and we can enjoy beauty there so much better. Another reason, one will 

 be more apt to divide the flowers with some sicli one or give to a neigh- 

 bor who has none, for when they are in the front yard one does not feel 

 so free to pluck and pick. 



I have a spiraea van Houtti in my back yard that is now eight or ten 

 years old and that measures about thirty feet in circumference. I paid 

 fifteen cents for it and it bloomed the second year, and since that time 

 has bloomed each year. Its beauty when in full bloom can not be de- 

 scribed, with its long sprays of pure white flowers daintily set in delicate 

 leaves and the sprays sometimes a yard long, so full it looks like an 

 immense bush with a white sheet thrown over it. The sprays look like 

 immense white plumes. I have cut almost a wagon load of bloom each 

 year to give away and that is the only attention the bush has had. That 

 is all the trimming it will need unless dead wood should be there. 



Another magnificent bush is the Persian lilac that difliers very much 

 from the common lilac. It is of low, bushy growth, with a small, fine leaf 

 and flower more delicate in color and texture. Flower blooms on long 

 spray, sometimes almost a yard long, plume-like and exceedingly fragrant. 

 Yet another lovely bush is the Standard or bush honeysuckle. It comes 

 in several shades, but the pure white is most lovely. Dewtzia is anothsr 

 lovely white flowering bush. Hydrangia paniculata makes a beautirul 

 addition, and, as this comes late, it is especially desirable. Blooms all 

 during August, and nothing is finer or more showy. It is so hardy it 

 may be easily gTown in any soil. This plant makes a lovely hedge; or, 

 when massed, are very showy. All shrubbery is more effective when 

 grouped or massed on the lawn. Wiegelas are also most worthy of culti- 

 vation. Flowers are very profuse and desirable for border. Spiraea An- 

 thony Waterer should not fail to be in your collection. . These are only a 

 few shrubs of many beautiful ones, but these mentioned I have found 

 very satisfactory. 



Do not buy the high-priced new things you know nothing about, when 

 there are so many of the low-priced ones that give such good satisfaction. 

 One of my happy experiences in growing shrubbery is, I have never been 

 bothered with any kind of insects. If you have a place for only two vines 

 I would recommend wistaria and honeysuckle halleana. 



I would by all means urge that the yard have a few shrubs here and 

 there or in a group. It will give the home such an air of taste or refine- 

 ment and beauty nothing else can. 



19-Board of A. 



