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can be obtained by carload at a still smaller figure 

 per thousand. The rhododendron cannot stand the 

 sun, therefore it may be planted in the spot so often 

 difficult to fill — the north side of the house. Wher- 

 ever located take the precaution to protect it in win- 

 ter by making a wigwam of evergreens or straw 

 about the separate clumps. 



For true splendor rhododendrons should be grown 

 in great masses, and on protected hillsides one can 

 reproduce in miniature the marvelous effect of the 

 North Carolina mountains when covered with blooms 

 of the Rhododendron Catawbiense. 



There is nothing which adds such poetry and cozi- 

 ness to a garden as vines. What is home without a 

 honeysuckle ! 



There is no easier way in literature to make the 

 residing place of the heroine instantly fascinating, 

 intimate and cosy than to drape the porch with 

 honeysuckle. The immortal " vine-clad cottage " 

 which plays so great a part in every girl's romantic 

 dreams, has, nine cases out of ten, the honeysuckle to 

 do the cladding. 



This vine grows so readily and is so multifarious 

 it is taken entirely too much for granted. I have 



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