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GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN. 



find the smaller specimens. Taken as a whole, however, 

 the appearance of the plants, one to two feet apart, would 

 be called entirely irregular, and instead of bare spaded earth, 

 generally considered necessary in such places, the entire sur- 

 face beneath the plants is 

 covered with varieties of 

 hardy creepers, such as 

 moneywort, periwinkle, 

 sedum, sandwort, moun- 

 tain everlasting, arabis, 

 or rock cress, not for- 

 getting the pretty 

 creeping forget-me-not, 

 and the turfing daisy, 

 with its lovely little 

 flowers. 



All the plants in this 

 border are entirely hardy, and will last for many years 

 without being renewed. Any one may enjoy here abundant 

 color and odor of the most charming kind, for the greater 

 part of the year. First, in early spring, peep out flowers 

 of the lovely blue hepaticas, of the trailing arbutus, the 

 dainty New England mayflower, and certain of the anemo- 

 nes or wind-flowers. The bloodroot, ( Sanguinaria Cana- 

 densis) too, very dwarf, is always eagerly looked for in 

 early spring, on account of the delicate charm of its pure 

 white buds tenderly enfolded with leaves ; later on, a clump 

 of its opened flowers are very showy. 



Then in May come still more, and, if possible, lovelier 

 flowers, many of which last on far into summer. Such are 



LIVER LEAF. 

 (HEPATICA TRILOBA.) 



