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day lily. The opportunities for experimenting in 

 this direction are unlimited. 



Having secured a satisfactory ground cover for 

 the open area, one must join this agreeably with 

 the walls of the house or terrace. Sometimes this 

 is done for two or three months with a certain meas- 

 ure of success by using such plants as cannas, ge- 

 raniums or begonias, but for the year round, plants 

 with a hardy woody growth must be chosen, usu- 

 ally shrubs or vines. The height of the plantation 

 about the house can be varied as is the sky-line 

 opposite. It can drop to the ground in places to 

 give light to low windows or show some archi- 

 tectural feature of the house, and climb to the roof 

 in others. The shrubs selected may spread out 

 away from the house or grow to a height sufficient 

 to screen a veranda from the street. They may 

 be chosen for beauty of leaves, blossoms, berries, 

 for perfume or for color of twigs. The features 

 of a front yard, the open space, the ground cover 

 below, and the border plantations, may be common 

 to all home grounds whether large or small. Even 

 with the smallest grounds, there is opportunity for 

 endless enjoyment in planting interesting and 

 beautiful things, in watching them grow, smell- 



