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fruit. Cobeas, Madeira vines, moonflowers, 

 and all the beautiful ipomeas and clematis, 

 with such roses and jessamine as endure the 

 cold, aided by a few lengths of the wire netting 

 whose invention was such a benefaction to the 

 world, these are all so easy to get, and so easy 

 to grow that it ought to be as impossible to 

 find a house without its covering of vines, as a 

 child barefoot in the winter snow. 



The walls being taken care of, the angle 

 formed by the foundation stone and the lawns 

 must be blotted out by shrubs and small trees. 

 The taller ones are to be placed in the corner, 

 and against such portions of the wall as are 

 windowless, the lesser to stand under the win- 

 dows. The list to choose from is exactly as 

 long as the plantsman's announcements of the 

 wares he has for sale. In semi-rural com- 

 munities there are often good bushes to be 

 had for the asking, and these are usually much 

 larger than can be bought, but if one must 

 buy, field-grown roots at least two years, old 

 should always be chosen. 



For the northern exposures, laurel and 

 rhododendron should be planted in an irregular 

 bed, well spaded and well fertilised. A few 



