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How to Make a Flower Garden 



growing. Our early pomology is concerned mostly with tree fruits — apples, 

 pears, cherries, peaches, plums. The bush-fruit industry is really a develop- 

 ment of the last fifty years; and even yet there are many good fruit- 

 growers who will not "bother" with berries. 



The marked advance in the appreciation of shrubs is probably due 

 to two general agencies — to our growing intimacy with the particular objects 



Ugly corners and bare lattice-work screened with wild bushes and herbs 



in nature, and to the teaching by the landscape gardeners. We are caring 

 more for things afield. We even start agitations to preserve the wild flowers 

 and animals from destruction. Every year we are transferring greater 

 numbers of the wild plants to our gardens. Our appreciation of nature 

 is becoming closer and more particular. I believe that we have lost nothing 

 of appreciation in the large ; but we have certainly added a more specific 

 understanding of the details. From the art side, we are aware that our 

 canons of taste are changing. The old idea of the grove as a proper concep- 



