10 A Little Maryland Garden 
patience to watch over the little plants, 
and protect them from the summer’s heat, 
many additions can be made to the garden, 
that would soon exhaust one’s purse if they 
were bought at the regular prices. There is, 
of course, some risk, as the weather is so 
unfavourable, and it takes a good deal of 
determination to begin raising a shrub 
when its size is almost microscopic. But 
from these small beginnings I have brought 
up some fine wistarias and climbing roses, 
spireas, both ‘‘ Anthony Waterer”’ and Reev- 
sii, as well as the handsome herbaceous pal- 
mata, and am now trying to induce a labur- 
num to do credit to my powers as a gardener. 
This laburnum was so tiny when it came 
that I carried it over the first winter in the 
house, and in the spring sunk the pot in the 
border, where it was forgotten. It was 
entirely neglected until one day in the fall. 
I was having a fall cleaning in the borders, 
energetically pulling up and cutting back, 
when I came upon it, a little worse for the 
indefatigable summer insects but really want- 
