44 HEDGES, WINDBREAKS, SHELTERS, ETC. 



poor soil, with a plenty of water, and makes a trellis 

 that never gets tired of blooming. It is a peculiarly 

 wholesome flower, fit for the sick room as well as 

 the dining room. When you want an annual screen 

 or hedge of flowers, there is not one of them all to 

 surpass it. The sweet pea is its only rival, but the 

 sweet pea exhausts itself in half the season, and it 

 requires extra good soil and constant attention to 

 keep a fine screen. The tropeolum runs irregularly, 

 freely, and with a sort of flowery abandon. 



Morning-glories are perhaps our next be:,t 

 screen maker, and for a porch or tall screen, our best. 

 They blossom profusely all summer, provided only 

 that you will keep the seed picked off. Better still 

 it is to sow a second drill of seed outside the other 

 later in the spring. I am accustomed to let morning 

 glories sow themselves along a board and wire fence. 

 They grow all over it and cover it with a luxuriant 

 glory in August, September and October. You can 

 use either of these flowers to climb up any wall or 

 fence that needs decorating. 



SECTION II TREATMENT. 



Ornamental hedges depend for their beauty on 

 more or less neglect. That is, if made of bushes, 

 they must be allowed to follow natural outlines witli 

 considerable irregularity. The Tartarian honey- 

 suckle is, however, specially excellent for keeping a 

 good form and enduring pruning. You may lop off 

 branches that overreach or you may cut a whole side 

 back without materially damaging the hedge. 

 Indeed, I cannot say too much for this admirable 



