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often travel long distances to see them in bloom. Garden roses, too, 

 have their societies and have secured a place in the regard and the 

 knowledge of the public which is not altogether justified by their 

 position in the horticultural world. Aside from their flowers roses have 

 nothing to recommend them for ornamental planting. Lilies, small 

 flowering trees, rhododendrons, azaleas, and other broad-leaved ever- 

 greens all possess better foliage and are more free from bugs, mildew, 

 and other diseases. 



Magnificent effects may be secured by using the proper sorts of lilies, 

 properly planted. Lilies seem, on the whole, to thrive better in soil 

 which is full of the roots of other plants, and thus they are most happily 

 used in conjunction with other herbaceous or small woody plants. 

 They may be selected to provide bloom continuously from May till 

 September and to suit any type of soil or condition of shade or 

 open sun. 



During recent years numerous named sorts of thorn apples, 

 crabapples, flowering cherries, and other small trees have been put 

 on the market. These trees could, with splendid results, be sub- 

 stituted for the round-leaved or umbrella catalpa and weeping mul- 

 berry of the old-time nursery salesman. They are not only hardy, 

 shapely, and beautiful in flower, but many of the single-flowering 

 sorts produce handsome fruit and others have a good autumn 

 colour. 



There are now at least fifty sorts of small evergreen shrubs and vines, 

 aside from the rhododendrons, which are reasonably hardy throughout 

 the northern states. It is coming to be generally recognized that, 

 aside from the antipathy to calcareous soils which is shown by the 

 rhododendrons and other ericaceae, the chief drawback to the use of 

 many of our charming broad-leaved evergreens has not been so much 

 the finding of a proper soil as the securing of a proper exposure and a 

 condition of continuous moisture without stagnation. As the smoki- 

 ness of our cities continues to increase the list of coniferous evergreens 

 that will survive this condition grows smaller. Therefore for winter 

 effects in cities we should turn to broad-leaved evergreens, many of 

 which are not only able to survive smoke and dust, provided they are 

 occasionally washed down and are kept always moist at the roots, 

 but which contain among them some of the finest flowering plants 

 which can be secured. 



Care should be taken when purchasing horticultural varieties 



