ten] among the flowers 



which is more than we can say of our bulbs, our 

 tubers, and our bedding plants. You have to keep 

 out deadwood and feeble suckers, and mulch well, 

 and your bushes give you sure compensation. 

 Whether you grow them for flowers, or simply to 

 constitute a shrubbery, remember that simplicity, 

 and not formal stifl^ness, is your guide in trimming. 

 At this point I propose to make a list of flowers, 

 as I did of fruits, for the laborer's cottage, where 

 the space for flowers must be unusually limited, yet 

 where flowers are needed to lighten and enlighten 

 life as they are nowhere else. Around your door 

 and over your porch run Crimson Rambler roses, 

 and with them the wild native clematis and its im- 

 proved variety, paniculata. Make room for these 

 roses very near the door — Hermosa, Balduin, 

 Clothilde Soupert, Gen. Mac Arthur, Gen. Jacque- 

 minot, and Meteor. They will take but little 

 room and but little care. On the other side of your 

 doorway a bush of old Cinnamon rose, or, better 

 yet, one of the Scotch roses, will be a perennial 

 delight. No one is too poor or too busy to grow 

 tulips, as I have suggested, in the berry gardens. 

 In this way the plainest laborer's cottage can have 

 great masses of color and sweetness at no cost 



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