ADDENDA. 



ADORNMENTS. THE BEAUTIFYING THEREOF. 



The enthusiastic, energetic, world benefiting publisher 

 01 this little book, has insisted upon something touching 

 thv, naming of some of the best flowering shrubs, roses, 

 budding-out plants, perennials, low growing evergreens, 

 vines, etc., etc., and, rather than neglect a duty, we shall 

 attempt to write somewhat of practical use. We do not 

 propose to write an essay on aesthetic horticulture or the 

 science of the art, for all such are but as the bloom from 

 seed fir^t sown in the garden of Eden. But when one 

 has an old barren piece of ground with a tenement upon 

 it, we wish to show how a few hardy flowering shrubs 

 ana seeds can make of it a place of beauty, where the 

 children can play and enjoy themselves without hindrance 

 or scoffing from their neighbors. 



Strange ideas enter into the minds of many persons, 

 when the subject of beautifying home surroundings is 

 mentioned in their presence They will usually utter the 

 far too common and absurd remark that such things are 

 costly, and it is only the rich who can afford them. It 

 certainly costs no more, as a general rule, to build a house 

 ten rods from the highway than one as many feet from it ; 

 and still these latter unsuitable and inappropriate locations 



