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Didn't you envy the German Elizabeth her mile 

 long lilac hedge? What a wondrous sight it must 

 be in spring! 



In trimming spireas, take out all the old wood 

 which has held bloom; the new growth will then 

 spring up with tremendous rapidity and many more 

 flowers next season will be your reward. 



The herbaceous blue spirea is very pretty, grow- 

 ing to about two feet in height. It is quite hardy if 

 given a winter mulch. (This spirea of course needs 

 no trimming, as it dies down to the ground each 

 fall.) 



I clip the white deutzia (gracilis) with the hedge 

 shears, as it is too great a job to trim the millions 

 of dried flower heads individually. Each summer a 

 fourth of the old wood is cut away. 



The pink deutzia, to be at its best, needs to have 

 every bit of its old wood removed after its midsummer 

 blooming. 



There is a beautiful treelike shrub much grown 

 in the middle south which will also thrive even 

 where there is a moderate amount of snow and frost; 

 in South Carolina it is called Crepe Myrtle, in the 

 island of Saba, Queen of the Garden, in Bermuda, 



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