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Ornamental Shrubs. 



and continuing a month or more. The color is not only 

 variable, but changeable as the season advances. It 

 ranges through mild shades of creamy-white to pink and 

 blue, and is always beautiful. It is coming to be quite 

 the custom, where large plants are standing in the open 







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HYDRANGEA HORTENSIA. 



garden, to prepare and protect them for winter without 

 removal, which in such cases is somewhat difficult. This 

 is done by bending the branches to the ground as nearly as 

 possible, and covering with earth in the form of a mound. 

 Some of the largest and finest plants in Newport have 

 been treated in this way for a succession of years, and it 

 is seldom that losses occur through this process. There 



