CHOICE OF FLOWERS 



Next in Importance to our roses — to many 

 the most important of all the garden contents, 

 since they are the largest objects, and have the 

 use not alone of beauty but of hiding the un- 

 beautiful — are vines. And by all means culti- 

 vate a honeysuckle. Train it over a trellis at 

 your back door, or over a part of your fence. 

 If you have any sheds or unsightly buildings on 

 your premises, cover them with it. Its flowers 

 are not much to look at, but the deep, strong 

 green of its leaves stays through the winter, at 

 least where it mats together, and there is nothing 

 more delicious than the odor breathed through 

 its tiny trumpets in call to the bee. If I could 

 have but ten flowers they should be the rose, 

 lily, lily-of-the-valley, lilac, nasturtium, petunia, 

 pansy, sweet pea, aster and honeysuckle. This 

 vine can safely be left to itself, once it has been 

 started, and it needs no more than occasional 

 thinning out, for it has a tendency, on arbors 

 and summer-houses, to put out such masses of 

 leaves, and to so knot and twine itself together 

 that it forms a screen against the air and light. 

 It can be employed to cover walls of brick or 

 stone, and there is an estate in Tarrytown, N. Y., 



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