A Continuous Bloom in the Shrubbery 



There is a strong tendency when purchasing 

 shrubbery to select a Httle of everything — one 

 plant of each, perhaps. I do this myself — not 

 without excuse perhaps on my part, for we people 

 who write for the benefit of others have to get 

 our knowledge by, often costly, experience, and 

 not by the mere reading of nursery catalogues. 

 It is sometimes a most excellent thing to gratify 

 this inclination providing one has a piece of land 

 which can be devoted to experimental purposes 

 and where one can shift things about until one 

 has gained just the right combination and ex- 

 posure for each plant. A strip of ground twelve 

 or fifteen feet wide and as long as available will 

 give room for a very successful planting of small 

 trees and shrubs and hardy perennials may be 

 introduced to fill in until the shrubs have reached 

 an effective size. Ulmarias, hardy phlox, ori- 

 ental poppies, rudbeckias and the like will be 

 found very useful and tall clumps of lilies should 

 always be interspersed in all permanent plantings. 



It will often be found that some shrub which 

 one has admired at close range is entii-ely in- 



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