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planted so that it may have plenty of fibrous roots. 

 The weeping cut-leaved form is the best variety for 

 the lawn, its stem is so white. 



June is the month of flowers. Later in midsummer, 

 few blooms appear. There are the scarlet rambler 

 roses and Rosa setigera or the prairie rose, and at this 

 season, also, blooms one of the finest of all half trees 

 or shrubs, andromeda, or Oxydendron arboreum, the 

 sorrel tree. Its flowers are great white tassels like the 

 plume on a helmet and the foHage is a rich glossy green. 

 It grows slowly hke the dogwood at first, but eventually 

 it attains great size. This recalls the fact that the dog- 

 woods have not been noticed. They are specially 

 beautiful in summer after their spring bloom has 

 passed. The foliage is fine and so are the branches, 

 and they are fine at any age even when a ruin. It is a 

 fact, when you come to think of it, there is no deciduous 

 shrub of such great, as well as lasting, beauty to be 

 found on the lawn, not even the andromeda. It is, 

 however, shy in transplanting and takes some time to 

 establish itself. 



There is after all so much personality and individual- 

 ity in plants that one never knows how to take them. 

 They develop such queer freaks and odd divergence 

 from ordinary habits. Dogwoods form an instance in 

 point. Sometimes they will get away and grow at once 

 after transplanting in spite of the fact that they are 

 naturally slow in starting, so much so that dry weather 

 and other causes kill many of them in the very beginning. 

 It is often as hard to diagnose the troubles of plants 



