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everywhere. It does not suffice to keep your 

 garden weeded and your lawn well mown. It is 

 necessary also to pay heed to the weeds along 

 neighboring roads, for their seeds will be no re- 

 specters of your boundary lines. 



You will be taking steps toward enhancing the 

 beauty of your lawn next season, and will be 

 lessening your work in the flower bed and vege- 

 table garden if you use scythe and hoe freely on 

 the weeds growing along the roadside everywhere 

 in the neighborhood of your grounds. 



No effort that you could bestow would have a 

 larger influence toward the beautification of 

 your next season's lawn, and the lightening of 

 your labors in next season's garden than that 

 devoted to the destruction of this season's crop 

 of weeds, wherever found. 



FLOWERS; AND THE DISPOSITION OF TREES 



Probably color is the most attractive thing 

 about flowers. Usually solid colors are more 

 attractive, but harmonious combinations are 

 almost as valuable. 



A graceful form probably comes next in 

 attractiveness. 



Size and abundance of bloom next. Size does 

 not always happen to be an advantage. Some 

 flowers, as the heaths, are attractive because of 



