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turies of culture which have quite outgrown the 

 common general garden and must always have 

 a place to themselves. Note that these are 

 never ornamented with the rich and brilliant 

 berries or hips which make the wild rose and the 

 other single roses such things of beauty and joy 

 in winter. This is the penalty of doubling. The 

 plant is rendered sterile and incapable of pro- 

 ducing fruit. 



Boxwood is another shrub growth that is in 

 a class apart from all the rest. It is the one 

 plant of this class that, unless used as a hedge, 

 is preferably planted alone rather than in a 

 group. We seem to have lost the knack of 

 handling it effectively nowadays, however, and 

 even the boxwood hedge is almost never seen. 

 Its slow growth is probably in a large measure 

 the reason for this; and it is of course an ex- 

 pensive species, compared to the general run 

 of shrubs. But one well-placed specimen of 

 boxwood should find a place in the garden, even 

 though it comes as a very tiny bush in the 

 beginning. For not another plant in the world 

 has such an air about it as this exquisite old 

 aristocrat — and it suits formal or informal 

 schemes equally well, even as gentlefolks tact- 

 fully set things and people at their ease, wher- 

 ever they may go. 



