138 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



had with old specimens, which you should be able 

 to procure from some ancient farmhouse in your 

 neighbourhood. You should have a White Lilac in 

 the flower garden, for it will live to a good old age 

 and grow more picturesque every year. Lilacs 

 look well near the house in front of it, if it is pos- 

 sible to put them there, at either side of the porch. 

 One never tires of them in the latter place; they 

 seem really a part of the house. They may be 

 planted to overhang the garden hedge or to border 

 a walk, or for an untrimmed hedge behind an old 

 wall, or on top of a bank. Planted thickly along 

 the party line they make a good screen, and are 

 less stiff and formal than a fence and more useful 

 to your neighbour. You really cannot have too 

 many of them, as they contribute more to the at- 

 mosphere of home than any other shrub. Old 

 bushes can be moved by the " hired man" under 

 your direction; but if you get them from a nur- 

 sery confine your choice to the old varieties. I 

 have moved Lilacs when in flower, and they have 

 gone on blooming just as if they were used to a 

 carriage-drive every day. 

 The white flowering native DOGWOOD (Cornus 



