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which is more than we can say of our bulbs, our 
tubers, and our bedding plants. You have to keep 
out deadwood and feeble suckers, and mulch well, 
and your bushes give you sure compensation. 
Whether you grow them for flowers, or simply to 
constitute a shrubbery, remember that simplicity, 
and not formal stiffness, is your guide in trimming. 
At this point I propose to make a list of flowers, 
as I did of fruits, for the laborer’s cottage, where 
the space for flowers must be unusually limited, yet 
where flowers are needed to lighten and enlighten 
life as they are nowhere else. Around your door 
and over your porch run Crimson Rambler roses, 
and with them the wild native clematis and its im- 
proved variety, paniculata. Make room for these 
roses very near the door — Hermosa, Balduin, 
Clothilde Soupert, Gen. MacArthur, Gen. Jacque- 
minot, and Meteor. They will take but little 
room and but little care. On the other side of your 
doorway a bush of old Cinnamon rose, or, better 
yet, one of the Scotch roses, will be a perennial 
delight. No one is too poor or too busy to grow 
tulips, as I have suggested, in the berry gardens. 
In this way the plainest laborer’s cottage can have 
great masses of color and sweetness at no cost 
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