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hang for winter provisions. And here are the latest 

 guests, a double-flowering crab and a staghorn sumac, 

 and in the background the weigelas and altheas, the 

 harvest home and the Rose of Sharon, which will be gay 

 in midsummer and early autumn. 



While a garden is first of all a place for flowers, 

 grounds are first of all a place for shrubs, which are but 

 flowers of a larger growth. The shrub, be it calycanthus 

 or flowering currant, is a grateful thing that will grow 

 into the affections. Many shrubs chuckle in their secret 

 hearts that they are always there, showing color or fruit 

 or gallant shapes against snowdrifts when the perennials 

 are nodding and the annuals have gone to their long rest. 



If the plot of ground is large enough, and the heart 

 likewise, there is much satisfaction in making compan- 

 ionship of flowers and shrubs, using the latter for a back- 

 ground or a shelter, and cherishing one while you cherish 

 the other. The shrub has its willful sins and pestering 

 temptations, with as many parasitic enemies as the most 

 devoted among us, seeking the upward way to grace and 

 flowering virtue. 



If anywhere on earth, we believe in his garden, most 

 of all, a man has a right to indulge his fancy. Set the 

 compass by the polestar of beauty and delight, and what 

 matter if others think you mad ! Go on and olant what 

 you like. 



A shrubbery lot comes a step nearer paradise if a 



