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important part of their childhood were they to 

 grow up strangers to this bush's mysterious spell. 

 It has a soothing effect and a sympathetic one, 

 and children are apt to seek it when overwhelmed 

 by fancied troubles that they cannot unburthen to 

 their elders, or plunged in the unexplainable mel- 

 ancholy that they sometimes experience, and that 

 is unfathomable even by their mothers. 



HYPERICUM PROLIFICUM is a little yellow-flow- 

 ering shrub that grows well and blooms in the 

 shade. It is useful along wooded paths where a 

 little colour is needed in Summertime and is so 

 hard to procure. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET (Ligustrum ovalifoliwri) is 

 an effective shrub when used as a specimen. Its 

 colour is good and it holds its leaves so long that 

 it could almost be called an evergreen without 

 stretching the imagination very far. It is of very 

 quick growth and may be shaped readily with the 

 shears into a rotund bush, which makes a very 

 good supplement to a wooden gatepost. Privet 

 is easily transplanted and it is possible to move 

 large specimens without risk. It will do much 

 better if freely supplied with water and the foliage 



