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to often otherwise tame garden- work. Many of them supply 

 flowers for inside decoration of the rooms. Being small in 

 size, they are especially useful in planting places of small 

 extent, are comparatively inexpensive, and reach maturity 

 in a very short time. They are very useful in ornamenting 

 the foreground where it is desired to take in views above 

 and beyond the limits of small grounds, and serve the pur- 

 pose of a setting or ornamentation close up to the dwelling 

 and over which may be viewed the more extended lawn 

 decoration. These plants are better set out in groups or 

 beds than singly, the land being thoroughly fitted by deep 

 spading in of a liberal amount of fine stable manure and 

 some leaf mould. When planted in this way the surface of 

 the beds should be covered over in the fall of each year with 

 rich stable manure, the finer particles to be spaded in the 

 next spring. Weeds must be kept down during the summer 

 with hoe and rake and hand pulling. The author's weed 

 killers are shown in Fig. 118. When shrubs are set in the 

 lawn, the soil around them should be kept cultivated, as 

 shown in Fig. 134. Among the most desirable are the fol- 

 lowing: 



Azalea, Pink. Pepper Bush, Sweet. 



Azalea, Flame-colored. Dogwood, Red-twigged. 



Azalea, Vasey's. Dogwood, Variegated. 



Azalea, Japanese. Filbert, Purple-leaved. 



Azalea, Ghent. Quince, Japanese. 



Aralia, Hercules Club. Daphne. 



Aralia, Japanese. Deutzia, Double-flowered. 



Barberry, Am. Deutzia, Slender. 



Barberry, Dwarf. Weigela, Rose-flowered. 



Weigela, Variegated. Elder, Red-fruited. 



Silver-thorn. Spiraea, Golden. 



Burning Bush. Spiraea, Bridal- wreath. 



Burning Bush, Corky-barked. Spiraea, Lobed. 



Exochorda. Spiraea, Bumald's. 



Golden-bell. Spiraea, Thunberg's 



Golden-bell, Fortune's. Spiraea, Van Houtte's. 



