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WHERE TO PLANT FLOWERS 



Plants grown for their flowers only are always desired but are 

 frequently misplaced by giving them too much prominence. Never 

 have flower beds in the middle of the lawn. Have them along the 

 sides of the house, in long narrow beds, in screened flower gardens 

 or scattered through the shrubbery clusters. Flowers are roughly 



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Figure 44 A shrubbery cluster composed of White Spruce, Golden Willow and 

 Wild Plum on a frosty morning on the Agricultural College Campus. 



divided into annuals, hardy perennials, bulbs and tuberous rooted plants. 

 Flowers from any of these classes can be used in any of the 

 ways mentioned. They are all valuable in North Dakota because 

 they produce fine effects the first year while the trees and shrubs are 

 small. 



USE OF BULB FLOWERS 



The bulb flowers are the first flowers of spring. They are most 

 effective in large masses of the same variety or scattered in groups 

 along the edge of the shrubbery clusters which they brighten up 

 with fresh color early in the season. "When once planted in the 

 shrubbery borders the bulbs are left there permanently to come up 

 every year. This can be done if they are planted in beds or they can 



