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will give better blooms the following 3-ear than if left to seed in 

 their original location. The same may be said of others. As soon 

 as the seed vessels begin to form there is a great demand upon the 

 bulb. Those who do not allow their lilies to go to seed will get 

 more and better flowers the next season. — Garden a7id Forest. 



SHRUBBERY IN NEW ENGLAND. 

 We plant for the summer only, while our cousins over the sea 

 plant for the whole year. Some will reply to me that we have few 

 good evergreen shrubs fit for our climate, or broad-leaved ever- 

 greens, such as rhododendrons, laurels, etc. I reply to all such 

 that we have the finest ones in existence, growing wild in quantities, 

 and we have overlooked them for so much of our national existence 

 almost wholly, while Europeans have always used them with lavish 

 hand, and our own native broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, the lack 

 of which leaves our lawns so barren looking all winter, are the very 

 plants that make England's gardens so rich and so constantly green. 

 Two species of rhododendrons, of absolute hardiness and superb 

 beauty, three of kalmias, one of them our lovely mountain laurel, 

 two native hollies, are all evergreens, and should be found in thou- 

 sands in the gardens of New England Of these seven species, the 

 first two and the mountain laurel are the best, and would serve all 

 necessary purposes, and their free and general use would so meta- 

 morphose our shrubberies, now leafless so long, that one would soon 

 fancy himself in the green shrubberies of the mother land. Why 

 do we not appreciate our own unequaled native shrubs? Why 

 should we cross an ocean to see places made famous by beauties 

 derived from generous use of American plants which grow wild and 

 unconsidered here at home? The sensible man who should plant 

 his spacious grounds with these charming native shrubs in a really 

 liberal way would not only have in time the finest grounds to show, 

 but be a public benefactor and educator — F. L. Temple in Boston 

 Journal. 



THINNING FRUIT. 

 The practice of removing the surplus fruit from trees which have 

 ambitiously undertaken more than they can properly perform without 

 injury to the present crop, and permanent injury to the trees them- 

 selves in many cases, is an operation which needs only a careful, 



