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Japanese plum trees, very attractive and beautiful, strong 

 bushes, which will not grow in this country. 



Here we are in Dresden at the lilac blooming time. It is one 

 of the fete days of Dresden, for there are thousands.of people 

 that go to Dresden every spring simply to have a smell of the 

 spring and see the lilacs in blossom. Here are also the wistarias 

 growing against the side of the house, and we have a typical 

 arrangement of a dwelling-house of the better kind — there are 

 a good many things which I have not time to explain. Here 

 we see the lilac bush at the private house leaning over against 

 the wall, and the pear tree growing against the gable end of the 

 house — there isn't much room, as you will see; wherever there 

 is a foot of land it is made use of, either in fruit trees or useful 

 plants or something which is attractive to the family. This is 

 rather a better house here, with its nice fence and its splendid 

 lilac bush growing against the wall. These arrangements are 

 perfectly practicable in any of our American communities. In 

 American cities we have what we call slums. We are ashamed 

 of them and we try to get rid of them, and we are doing 

 something very slowly and very unsatisfactorily to rid our 

 cities of the slums. I think that on the whole the better cities 

 of Germany and Austria have made more progress than any 

 other cities in the world. The picture which is taken here is in 

 one of the poorer districts of Vienna and shows a little court- 

 yard around which six or eight families live, all opening out 

 into this little square, and yet you see it is a fine, pleasant, at- 

 tractive place. It has a home-like look and it is greatly en- 

 hanced by the fruit trees and vines which are growing there. 

 In every one of these little courtyards you will find some sort 

 of gardening going on. 



You and I, however, who like to be in the country, are more 

 interested to walk along the country roads and to view scenes 

 like this. When the fruit trees are in blossom there we find 

 something really more attractive than the set and cultured gar- 

 dens such as some of those I have been showing you. These 

 wayside views are always attractive. This is one of the subur- 

 ban gardens of the poor working classes in the neighborhood of 

 Berlin. All about the European cities you v/ill see small gar- 

 dens of a quarter or an eighth of an acre set apart and rented 

 on long terms of years to workmen of the poorer classes in the 



