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usually severe. White La France (Hybrid Tea) ; called also Au- 

 gustine Guinoiseau; possesses the good qualities of the La France. 

 White Malmaison (Bourbon) ; color, white with touch of light 

 blush ; a strong grower and profuse bloomer. In buying roses be sure 

 that they are grown upon their own roots not grafted. (Others 

 consulted in this article: 111. E. S. B. 135; N. Hex. E. S. B. 40; Ont. 

 E. S. R. 1910.) 



Business Suggestions. Before planting the home grounds make 

 up a list of what you are going to need. Send this list for quoted 

 prices to several concerns and accept the best all-round offer. Get 

 your neighbor to do the same; get out a big list, get your plants 

 cheaper and save on the freight. Fix up the place. It shows proper 

 respect for the wife and daughters who have a keen natural taste for 

 beauty adornment and sentimental results. A beautiful lawn and 

 other grounds meet and realize a woman's natural sense of refine- 

 ment. Besides other considerations home embellishment is a good 

 business investment. A postal addressed to any one of the reliable 

 houses, of which the following are a few, will bring their nursery 

 catalogue to the farmhouse free of charge : Ellwanger & Barry, Roch- 

 ester, New York; Swain, Nelson & Sons Co., Chicago; Biltmore Nur- 

 series, Biltmore, North Carolina; "VVm. H. Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; 

 Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Pa. ; Storrs & Harrison Co., Paines- 

 ville, Ohio; The Phoenix Nursery, Bloomington, Illinois; D. Hill, 

 Evergreen Specialist, Dundee, Illinois; Peterson Nursery Co., Chi- 

 cago; Elliott Nursery Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. (111. E. S. B. 135.) 



Use of Plants A bout a Dwelling. Annual plants which have a 

 suitable habit of growth and adequate foliage may be made to do duty 

 about the dwelling and upon the grounds in the place of the more 

 appropriate shrubs and perennials. The one great drawback to which 

 such annual plantations are subjected is their yearly destruction by 

 the first hard frosts of the season. Annual plants, such as cosmos, 

 castor bean, sunflower, aster, zinnia, and flowering sage, may all be 

 made to serve as substitutes for shrubbery plantations until the shrubs 

 themselves have grown to sufficient size to command the situation. 



Tall-growing, broad-leaved plants, like the castor bean, can be 

 used with advantage as screens for driveways or walks by placing a 

 mass of the plants in the bay of the walk or drive. The tall-growing 

 plants of this description when massed against buildings, fences, or 

 other obtrusive objects serve as attractive and efficient temporary 

 screens. Lower-growing plants when massed in borders along the 

 boundary of the place, with taller-growing annuals or shrubs as a 

 background, are more effective than when used in beds at the front or 

 side of a dwelling. In fact, the formal bed, either in the shape of an 

 oval, circle, or star, in the center of a greensward, is generally more 

 obtrusive than pleasing. The next bast place for the annuals after 

 the border is in masses about the foundation of a building; and if 

 vines of a temporary nature are desired, some of the rapid-growing 

 sorts, such as Cobsea scandens, the moonflower, morning-glory, or 

 cypress vine, may be appropriately used for training over fences or 

 walls, or about porches. 



