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I have one that I got when I went to Kansas in 1890. They grow 

 there as much as fifteen feet high. 



They are so spray lilvO that I Avanted one to bring home; so, as I 

 could not find a small one rooted, Cousin Fred Loy took his knife and cut 

 off a branch near the ground and put it in a can of dirt. It gi'ew, and 

 by keeping it in the house till spring, was large enough to set in the 

 ground. Before they leaf out in spring they are covered with pink flow- 

 ers. As the flowers fade the slender leaves start and it grows all sum- 

 mer, which makes it fresh and green. Now, in grouping your shrubs, 

 avoid planting them so they will not harmonize as to color. Be careful 

 where you place any blue flower. Best put it by itself. It is like putting 

 blue in a rag carpet— you don't know what to do with it. 



Once when visiting a friend in Vandalia, 111., I saw a board fence 

 covered with large rosebushes. The lady I Avas visiting wanted to raise 

 chickens, so they made a high fence by boarding up and down fully seven 

 feet jhigh. Along this fence she set rose bushes thick, of all kinds and 

 colors, mostly climbing ones. They were all over the fence when I saw 

 it, and very beautiful it was. 



And, dear horticultural friends, while you are planting shrubs in the 

 front and at the side of your grounds, plant some in the back yard so 

 that the mother as she toils in her kitchen can look out and feast her eyes 

 on them and perhaps spend a few moments with them resting her tired 

 body and brain. Why not plant them in the back yard to make a screen 

 for ash barrels and some such things that we must keep there? I think 

 I will plant a large group and put my ash barrel in the middle out of 

 sight. Let us try it. 



THE USE OF FLOWERS IN ORNAMENTING THE HOME 



GROUNDS. 



BY MRS. DON K. HITCHCOCK, BRIMFIELD. 



When the world was flnished God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden 

 of Eden. Methinks that he intended our homes to be beautiful and orna- 

 mental. After the loss of Eden man had to make his own home. 



History tells us of the grandeur of foreign countries, with their paint- 

 ings and, in fact, of art of all kinds; also of plants, both rare and beau- 

 tiful. 



The homes, beautified by everything that can be found to add to their 

 beauty, are the homes of nobility. Families who can trace their ances- 

 try back for hundreds of years, who have had possession of one piece of 



