THE COUNTRY HOME [cuAPTER 
worth the mention, and may even make the sale of 
bulbs a matter of income. Of perennials, make a 
great deal of phloxes and larkspurs. In addition 
to the old-fashioned lilacs and mock oranges, you 
can at least collect some of the native shrubs, 
which will beautify your street side and your fence 
line. Any one may glorify his cheap homestead 
with Tartarian honeysuckles, barberry bushes, and 
high-bush cranberry. These constitute a triplet of 
beauty through the larger part of the year. 
I have noticed that the poorer classes of country 
residents are fond of the dahlia. They like sym- 
metry, and the lesson is a good one to teach order 
and carefulness about the household and the lot. 
These can be grown near the kitchen door, and 
will render innocuous a place which would be other- 
wise a sink-hole for slops. If now you can go far- 
ther and spend a little time upon bedding plants, 
above all buy a dozen geraniums in the spring, 
when they can be got for a very small sum, plant 
them in almost any garden soil, and surround 
them with asters, petunias, or pansies. Instead of 
leaving your pig-pen to be a nuisance, slant up be- 
hind it a trellis for sweet peas. I am especially 
anxious that around your barn shall grow grape- 
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