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effective in the shrubbery border; take, for in- 

 stance, the Tartarian honej^suckle — a pretty- 

 enough thing close at hand but ineffectual and 

 insignificant at any distance. 



For a long shrubbery border of twelve or fif- 

 teen feet wide no better selection of shrubs can be 

 made than these seven perfectly reliable and 

 hardy shrubs — Forsythia, April; Spir£Ea Van 

 Hutti, May; Deutzia Pride of Rochester, June; 

 Hydrangea arborescens, July, August; Hy- 

 drangea paniculata, September; Althea, Octo- 

 ber and November. These are — with perhaps 

 the exception of the althea, wiiich is sometimes 

 uncertain — absolutely hardy and reliable plants 

 which increase in size and beauty from year to 

 year and insure a constant succession of bloom 

 throughout the summer and fall so that by their 

 use the shrubbery border need never be with- 

 out flowers. 



In planting a border of these mixed shrubs at- 

 tention to arrangement will have much to do with 

 success. Of course it will occur to the most inex- 

 perienced that the taller shrubs should be in the 



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