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ing raspberry, and many others which are always ready 

 to the hand, should be planted in profusion. If they 

 prove to be too thick, tliey may be thinned out as they 

 grow ; but it is very seldom that such a necessity arises. 

 Of course, many of the nurseryman's shrubs are well 

 worth having, and may be added as occasion requires 

 and means permit. 



In connection with shrubs, a great many hardy 

 perennials may be used to advantage. These are more 

 fully discussed in another place. Annual flowering 

 plants are not very useful or ajipropriate in the ordinary 

 front yard, though they may be grown in any quantity 

 in the side borders if desired. Such flowering plants 

 are usually grown for the blossoms themselves rather 

 than for anything they contribute to the general effect ; 

 and their end is then best served if they can be culti- 

 vated in a sepanite garden plot, behind the house or at 

 one side, enclosed somewhere, or in connection with the 

 kitchen garden. In this latter situation they are likely 

 to receive better culture and more fertilizer, and to give 

 correspondingly larger crops of finer blossoms. 



A fence about the farmyard is frequently a positive 

 necessity, but it need not be a whitewashed picket fence. 

 The less conspicuous it be, the better ; and some sort of 

 hedge, of arbor vitse, holly, privet, or similar materials, 

 is much to be preferred. The plan shown in Fig. 

 27, for a farmyard, is offered merely as a suggestion, 

 and should not be copied. The chief features to which 

 attention should be directed are the open space in front 

 of the house, the limited number of large trees, and the 

 shrubbery at the sides. 



