A GARDEN OF NATIVE 

 PLANTS 



URING the last few years 

 a decided change has taken 

 place in one phase of Ameri- 

 can gardening. The atten- 

 tion of the home gardeners 

 has been called to the beauty 

 and other good qualities of 

 our native plants, and it is becoming quite com- 

 mon among those who are setting out shrubs 

 and hardy plants to give the preference to 

 those of American growth. This is as it should 

 be. Our national pride ought to influence us to 

 choose native plants instead of foreign ones 

 whenever equally desirable and meritorious 

 specimens can be found at home. That we 

 have many plants quite as desirable as foreign 

 ones comparatively few Americans under- 

 stand. They have seen the discrimination 

 which has existed so long in favor of imported 

 plants and has practically crowded out our 

 native species, and, quite naturally, they have 

 come to the conclusion that this discrimination 



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