IN THE FRONT YARD. 5 



was plantin' daniiia so she would grow and I could 

 have her adin/^ Poor little fellow! Silver and 

 photos can't grow, but trees can. 



I saw a beautiful lilac tree twenty years old. It was 

 thirty inches around and thirty feet high and all that 

 splendid crown was a mass of fragrant bloom. Would 

 $100 buy it? Yet for $1.00 you buy the same kind 

 of a tree, which is as hardy and thrifty as our native 

 ash and which in its native mountains of Japan is a 

 foot through and fifty feet high. Professor Green 

 has them growing on the University grounds. There 

 is one to match it — the Chinese tree lilac with charm- 

 ing foliage and drooping branches. 



What a vast array of flowering shrubs. Besides 130 

 kinds of lilacs we have a splendid list of syringas, 

 spiraeas, viburnums, and many others. 



Take the perennials. What a noble family — phloxes 

 blooming from June to ISTovember. 



Get a dozen of them and this book will tell you how 

 to swell the number to a thousand so you can have a 

 field of splendor. 



Plant a few paeonies and soon you have hundreds. 



There are the columbines which have robbed the 

 rainbow of all its colors and woven them into bouquets 

 fit for kings. 



Think of the enjoyment you will have. When you 

 are tired with your day's work just take a vacation 

 on your front porch, and any day from spring till the 

 hard frosts of autumn there will be a procession of 

 beauty on gorgeous dress parade before you. 



