OF SHRUBS 



white phlox. Here in the early springtime under the leafless 

 bushes, the ground is covered with wood violets, from among which 

 rise brilliantly colored tulips, an unusual, but most successful, 

 combination. 



At the southeast corner of the lawn against the hooded entrance 

 we planted a small grove of thorn-apple and wild crab-apple trees, 

 the strawberry bush and the bladder-nut from our woods, the 

 maple-leafed viburnum and the wychhazel, carefully selecting those 

 already entwined with bitter-sweet or wild honeysuckleor the friend- 

 ly grape. All down the hill beneath them grow violets and hepat- 

 icas, maidenhair and the meadow rue, wild asters and a dwarf 

 golden-rod, shutting in the lawn from the roadway below. 



On the other side of the steps, the rhodotypos kerrioides 

 which often dies to the ground in winter, the spiraea Thumbergii 

 and the Indian currant, always flourishing in sun or shade, the 

 spiraea Van Houteii and ''that glorified elder," as one visitor 

 called it, the Hercules' Club, extend to the corner of the south 

 terrace, where the rosa rugosa from Japan, with its thickly set 

 prickles and huge scarlet haws, makes a brilliant mass in leaf or 

 fruit, a feast for the eye in summer and fall. 



Part of our pleasure in this country life is to explore the small 

 nurseries within a radius of thirty miles and to buy from them all 

 we can, as naturally those plants do better that have been accli- 

 matized. We found one very interesting little place, only two 



acres in extent, devoted to raising evergreens from the seed! It is 



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