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The Elders (Fig 71), with their great clusters of 

 lace-Hke, milk-white flowers, are quite as fine as many 

 foreign plants. Some of the Dogwoods are worth 

 a place in any garden. Our Thorns are almost equal 

 to the English Hawthorn, but unfortunately they are 

 not easy to transplant. The wild Crab Apple is a 

 most lovely shrub, or small tree, when covered with 

 its bright rose colored flowers of musky sweetness. 



FIG 71 — THE AMERICAN ELDER 



and would soon be extremely popular if advertised as 

 having come from Japan, with a long name attached 

 to it, and a good, big price. 



And then, the wild Roses, what could be sweeter? 

 Sometimes I think them more lovely, in many ways, 

 than the great double ones. They have such a deli- 

 cacy of color, such a delightful fragrance, and grow 

 in such a graceful way, that they ought to be grown 

 wherever any of the Rose family is cultivated. 



