The Road to Dumbiedykes 



The lilies of the valley fabricate their 

 tiny little cups, and resign themselves 

 quickly to the business of rootmaking 

 for another season. And while these 

 busy early risers are heralding the 

 coming of the great procession of the 

 floral year, the flowering shrubbery is 

 not lagging. 



The hedge of Japan quince can 

 always be depended on for its charm- 

 ing rose-red blossoms, put out simulta- 

 neously with the dark green foliage. 

 Lilacs of course. Graceful and sweet 

 are the improved white and Persian 

 sorts in favored localities, but the old 

 vulgaris cares so little where you ask 

 it to ply its beneficent vocation, as 

 hedge or clump or single specimen, that 

 I love it as I do an apple tree for its 

 astounding sturdiness. 



Around the doorway we planned to 

 have a snowdrift in the month of May. 

 There is of course but one way to this 

 — the spirea Van Houttei or bridal 

 wreath; and in all the world there is 

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