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complain. Do not trim the edging at all the first 

 season after setting out, but the following Spring 

 before it begins to grow give it a good clipping. 

 It makes a second growth later in the season. 



The beauty of a new garden and its surround- 

 ings may be much enhanced and the illusion of 



Old Box 



age heightened by planting old Box and Lilacs, 

 two shrubs that were much in evidence in the 

 New England yards, and that were great favour- 

 ites in the more formal gardens of the South. If 

 these are used, however, care should be taken to 

 place them where they obviously belong, where 



