THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



is what we have to do, and since the competitors 

 for our prizes always have the Where before they 

 are moved to get and place the What, we find 

 our where-and-what problem easiest to handle 

 when we lift it, so to speak, by the tail. Then 

 it is "What to Plant Where," and for answer 

 we have made a short list of familiar flowering 

 shrubs best suited to our immediate geographical 

 locality. We name only fourteen and we so 

 describe each as to indicate clearly enough, with- 

 out dictating, whereabouts to put it. We begin : 

 "Azalea. Our common wild azalea is the 

 flowering bush best known as *swamp honey- 

 suckle.' The two azaleas listed here, A. mollis 

 and the Ghent varieties, are of large, beautiful 

 and luxuriant bloom, and except the *swamp 

 honeysuckle' are the only azaleas hardy in 

 western Massachusetts. Mollis is from two to 

 six feet high, three to six feet broad, and blooms 

 in April and May. Its blossoms are yellow, 

 orange or pink, single or double. Its soil may 

 be sandy or peaty, and moist, but any good gar- 

 den soil will serve; its position partly shaded or 

 in full sunlight. The Ghents are somewhat 



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