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work, near the croquet ground, or possibly the tennis 

 court ; and I expect to find a bird's nest in every bush. 

 If there is a damp spot anywhere about, it will be 

 filled with dogwood and surrounded by Judas trees. 



Hazel bushes and hopple bushes will grow in the 

 shade of one or two wild cherries, wild plums, and 

 mountain ash. If, however, you cannot spare room 

 enough for all of these things, just have a good group 

 of Persian lilacs for me, another of spireas, and an- 

 other of mock-oranges, although I am not sure that 

 I like any shrub better than the old syringa, with a 

 fragrance that floats off an eighth of a mile. I have 

 not said half enough about the Judas tree, because it 

 is the finest very early shrub in existence; only re- 

 member that its wood is brittle and you had better 

 grow it as a small tree. 



You will be sure to find seedlings from most of 

 your shrubs, coming up year after year, generally to 

 be mowed off or hoed out. Let me advise you to 

 have somewhere along by your berry gardens or 

 plowed fields a little nursery to which you can trans- 

 plant these children of Nature and see what they 

 will come to. Give them in charge to one of your 

 boys or girls, with the understanding that he will 

 own the finer ones. In this way you will bind your 

 children to country life, and at the same time you 

 will be sure to get a lot of very fine new varieties of 

 shrubs. 



No two seedlings will come just alike. I am very 

 proud of my cross-bred mock-oranges and honey- 



