The Busy Woman's Garden Book 



remainder of the summer. If it had been in a 

 situation demanding a heavier planting I should 

 have alternated the plants, setting them behind 

 the spiraeas, with forsythias — whose golden yel- 

 low blooms make bright the garden in earliest 

 spring — and between the forsythias introduced 

 the deutzias. 



There are few more satisfactory and graceful 

 plants for use in front of a porch than this Spiraea 

 Van Hutti; its gracefully curved branches, 

 though growing to a good length, curve away 

 gracefully from the building, bending with their 

 weight of snowy bloom almost to the ground and 

 the growth is very strong and rapid, but never 

 coarse. It is the very best early blooming shrub 

 to date. 



Very lovely effects may be secured by alter- 

 nating the spiraea with the Weigela Eve Rathke, 

 and keeping this down to a somewhat prostrate 

 habit ; this will give a perfect sheet of bloom from 

 early May until the last of June and a less-pro- 

 nounced show of flowers throughout the re- 

 mainder of summer from the weigela. 



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