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How to Make a Flower Garden 



leave a snag, and wherever you find an old snag cut it off close to the living 

 wood. Never use hedge-shears on a shrub. We not infrequently see shrubs 

 bare at the bottom and with tall stems and broad, spreading heads, but they 

 are repugnant to the eye. When the shrubs begin to crowd each other in 

 a bed, do not try to remedy matters by pruning; instead, thin the mass by 



A bit of effective border planting 



removing a number of the bushes — dig them up carefully and plant 

 elsewhere. 



If any of your shrubs get infested with bark scale — Hlacs, prunuses, 

 euonymus, and some others frequently do — root them out bodily without 

 hesitation, and burn them Do not try to cure the shrubs by pruning off 

 the infested limbs. I once had a big bed of rugosa roses infested with 

 white scale, and m winter I cut off every plant down mto the ground ; the 

 next spring, from the suckers in the earth, up there came a dense mass of 

 young shoots, all perfectly clean. 



