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that each one does not last longer in bloom, yet you 

 observe that Nature's arrangement is after all the 

 best. She gives you just one or two very fine things 

 at a time, to occupy your full attention. 



For midsummer and early autumn we are ex- 

 pected to turn to the rose garden and the fruit gar- 

 dens, yet we have a few shrubs, such as the altheas 

 and the hydrangeas, that do not display their beauty 

 until August although the noblest of all the hy- 

 drangeas (a new find and baptized Arborescens grand- 

 iflora) begins to blossom in June and continues until 

 October a magnificent shrub and finer even than 

 the now famous paniculata. At this time also quite 

 a number of the May-blooming shrubs are gay with 

 scarlet or purple berries. 



A little later, and just in time for Thanksgiving, 

 the euonymus breaks open its seed pods and greets us 

 with a scarlet display, while the witch hazel begins 

 its autumn flowering. You cannot have too many 

 high-bush cranberries, not only to attract the gros- 

 beaks to dine, but because the berries make a delici- 

 ous sauce, very like the true cranberry. For myself 

 I like a bush of barberries, not only before my win- 

 dows, but at every turn of my drives, warming up 

 the landscape with brilliant scarlet when the snow 

 is covering the world for five successive months; 

 these berries also make a delightful jelly. 



Do not forget to plant a few fine-growing shrubs 

 around your barns and outhouses. I cannot say 

 positively that the cows enjoy the lilacs and the mock- 



