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selves, putting the tall-growing kinds to the rear (or 

 center) and the lower kinds in front. (Distances 

 apart vary from two to four or five or six feet, ac- 

 cording to variety.) Here is a short suggestive list 

 of shrubs: Althea (high-growing, late-blooming); 

 azalea (hardy kinds, low, early) ; barberry (Thun- 

 bergi is best-known variety, low, red berries) ; deut- 

 zia (both dwarf and tall-growing kinds) ; forsythia 

 (golden flowers very early, medium height) ; hy- 

 drangea paniculata grandiflora (splendid late 

 bloomer, plant in masses, prune new wood closely 

 each year, attains good size in time); lilac; rhodo- 

 dendron (prefers shade, different sizes and colors, 

 not hardy too far north, requires no pruning) ; snow- 

 ball ; spirea (various kinds, heights and colors 

 plant several; sweet-scented shrub (a favorite of 

 our grandmothers') ; syringa or mock-orange; wei- 

 gela. 



Pruning and care of shrubs : Keep the surface 

 of the ground loose and mellow. Mulch with strawy 

 manure in fall. Prune early-blooming shrubs as 

 soon as bloom has ceased; prune late bloomers early 

 the following spring. Little if any pruning is needed 

 the first few years, but the shrubs should be well 

 "cut back" at time of setting. There is no particular 

 science about pruning shrubs, other than the points 

 already mentioned; simply thin out, trim up or cut 

 back, as taste or circumstances may require. 



ROSES. No garden is quite complete without a 

 rose bed. I have not space to mention the many 

 excellent varieties here, but be sure to plant some 

 of the hybrid perpetuals Baroness Rothschild, pink ; 

 Fran Karl Druschki, pure white; General Jacque- 

 minot, crimson ; Gloire Lyonnaise, white, tinted 

 yellow ; Mrs. John Laing, pink ; Mrs. R. G. S. Craw- 



