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The Elders (Fig 71), with their great clusters of 

 lace-like, milk-whitQ flowers, are quite as fine as many 

 foreign plants. Some of the Dogwoods are worth 

 a place in any garden. Our Thorns are almost equal 

 to the English Hawthorn, but unfortunately they are 

 not easy to transplant. The wild Crab Apple is a 

 most lovely shrub, or small tree, when covered with 

 its bright rose colored flowers of musky sweetness. 



FIG 71 THE AMERICAN ELDER 



and would soon be extremely popular if advertised as 

 having come from Japan, with a long name attached 

 to it, and a good, big price. 



And then, the wild Roses, what could be sweeter ? 

 Sometimes I think them more lovely, in many ways, 

 than the great double ones. They have such a deli- 

 cacy of color, such a delightful fragrance, and grow 

 jn such a graceful way, that they ought to be grown 

 wherever any of the Rose family is cultivated. 



