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HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE 



The Horticultural Sextette, or Anywhere Plants. 



Twenty-five years ago the ordinary village home boasted a 

 wistaria over the front door, a clematis on veranda post, and a 

 few scattered lilacs, spireas and weigelas on lawns or backgrounding 

 box-edged walks and alleys. Today among hundreds of new varieties 

 the poorest can afford the following six glorious and inexpensive 

 plants: Ampelopis veitchii (Boston or Japanese Ivy), California 

 privet, Thunbergii berberis, Hydrangea paniculata grandi-flora, 

 the rambler rose preferably the crimson and pink rather than 

 the yellow and white, or that "agin natur" novelty of novelties, a 

 blue rose, the latest rambler to climb the fence which encloses the 

 queen of flowers and Rudbeckia laciniata or golden glow. Ampelop- 

 sis and Rudbeckia we grew satisfactorily from seed. 



The above plants will transform hedge rows, unsightly boulders, 

 stumps, and even uncouth architecture into curves and lines of beauty. 



Four main rules guided us in the laying out and care of the 

 arboretum : 



1. Drainage, deep digging and enriched soil. 



2. Knee, hand and foot work in straightening roots and pressing 

 the earth between and about them when planting stock. 



3. Pruning when planting, also at any time when not too wet or 

 cold to work comfortably (except those in which sap flows freely, as 

 in the maple and some vines, especially the grape). A convenient time 

 for the worker was the main consideration rather than season. 



THE WONDER TREE. 



