CHAPTER XXII 



A CONTINUOUS SUCCESSION OF BLOOM IN 

 THE SHRUBBERY 



HOW TO SECURE IT 



THE planting of shrubbery about the home 

 is so important that it may well take 

 precedence of the flower garden proper or even 

 the grading of the lawn itself. Indeed, if one 

 owns the site of a home and the building is yet 

 in the future, no better expenditure of one's spare 

 time and dollars can be inaugurated than such 

 initial planting as shall insure the presence of 

 blooming shrubs about the home at the time of 

 its completion so that all may be beautiful and 

 perfect together, rather than that two or three 

 years must elapse before one can begin to enjoy 

 the results. 



Hardy shrubs vary very greatly in the pre- 

 cociousness of their bloom, certain forms giving 



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