A Little Maryland Garden 179 
appearance of the well pruned shrub. These 
are the altheas and the hundred-leaf roses. 
The altheas are so hardy and full of life that 
nothing canhurtthem. The roses run about 
so eagerly that they must be severely treated 
to keep them within bounds. They would 
soon take up the end of the yard, and already 
from the small clump that was set out when 
the garden started, there has spread a 
thicket that might soon be out of proportion 
to the beds about it. 
I approach the syringas, spireas, and 
deutzias more cautiously, for I have found 
that injudicious cutting back will spoil their 
bloom, and so make a careful selection of old 
wood forthinning out. But when the destruc- 
tive instinct is strong, I fall upon the first two 
plants, with the pleasant confidence that 
if I smite the one cheek, next year they will 
smilingly turn the other for like treatment. 
While speaking of plants that stand 
heroic treatment, it would be ungrateful to 
make no mention of one of the garden’s 
most useful members, Creeping-Jenny. Per- 
