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desired but it is not beautiful when en masse 

 unless great care has been exercised when placing 

 the bushes. The size of the bush, too, will play 

 its part. Pruning roses is advised but if all bushes 

 are to be cut to one or two stems each year in order 

 to produce one or two very fine buds there will be 

 a lack of color in the rose garden, and the fact that 

 one or two fine buds will soon shatter and there will 

 be no chance for more to blossom forth should be 

 considered when pruning. It does seem a pity to 

 sacrifice so much of flower and foliage merely to 

 produce one or two unusually fine rose buds. In 

 selecting evergreens there may be procured beauti- 

 ful shades of grayish blue and bluish green in the 

 spruce, and soft yellows and greens in the cedar 

 and arbor- vitas. Barberry, hawthorne, buckthorn, 

 and holly will furnish red and the much-to-be- 

 desired andromeda floribunda with its cottony 

 white berries is beautiful alike for the garden and 

 for cutting to mix with other flowers in a vase. 



For the window boxes there should be vines as 

 well as plants unless the plants are spreading in 

 habit. The English ivy is always satisfactory here 

 and particularly when the flowers are a deep shade, 

 while the pretty little green and white king gera- 

 nium is lovely when planted among the more deli- 

 cately shaded flowers. 



