SHRUBS 



Quince, deep rose -pink, flowering early in 

 the spring. 



These all yield beautiful flowers, beside 

 being hardy and of rapid growth. 



All shrubs should be trimmed as soon as 

 they have finished flowering, but only enough 

 to prevent their becoming spindling, with the 

 exception of Hijdrangea grandiflora, which 

 should be trimmed back, at least three- 

 quarters of the new growth, every year. 



It is important, also, to thin out the old 

 wood of most shrubs after ^y^ or six years. 



Shrubs can be grown from cuttings if one 

 has patience to wait for the result. But as 

 it takes from three to four years' time and 

 considerable care to grow a shrub that would 

 cost but twenty cents, for which price many 

 varieties of shrubs can be bought, few 

 people care to raise them. 



On a large place it might be worth while 

 to raise shrubs from cuttings. And where 

 there is plenty of space, a small nursery of 

 them might be kept. 



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