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heads, but they will help, more than anything else, to 

 give a visual delusion of permanency. 



Take some path which you traverse daily and sow 

 a line on each side with Kochia Trihophi/lla or Sum- 

 mer Cypress. This will make a hedge about two and 

 a half feet high of the most exquisite green, filmy 

 foliage, which changes to a ruddy glow as the sum- 

 mer wanes and the seeds appear. 



Another hedge which I plant each summer is made 

 from the old-fashioned four-o'clocks. Get mixed 

 seed, and have a quaint patch-quilt effect of varie- 

 gated colors. The fragrance of the blossoms will 

 make every evening and early morning walk down the 

 path a delight. 



If the porch is full of glare and devoid of vines, 

 so long as we can't all be Jack and have his beanstalk, 

 we must get the best substitute obtainable for miracu- 

 lous results. 



Coboea scandens is a vine of phenomenal qualities, 

 growing twenty feet in a season. It has beautiful 

 foliage and bell-like flowers of a weird blue-green. 



In transient homes there are sure to be eyesores, 



ugly, ill-kept spots which we will want to hide from 



our own eyes and the knowledge of others. Morning 



glories and nasturtiums will rapidly respond to our 



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