A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



cotoneasters, are easily purchasable ? Until these 

 things are seen by one's own eye, however, it is 

 difficult to interest the individual in them. The 

 new philadelphus tribe, the new dierviUas — these 

 are like the products of a dream; the new deutzias, 

 like their originals or types, but so much more 

 beautiful, more distinguished. 



We have passed in this country througi various 

 periods of fashion in gardening and in shrub plant- 

 ing. In driving through towns of various States 

 one notices this. There was, of course, the ob- 

 noxious time when the golden-leaved shrub was 

 the thing; a later period, when the blue spruce 

 predominated as a feature of the planting. In a 

 town on the highroads of New York I could not 

 help thinking that the motto of its inhabitants at 

 one time must have been "A Weeping Elm for 

 Every Home." Similarly in parts of New Eng- 

 land every dooryard in countless numbers of local- 

 ities has its hydrangea, a single specimen always, 

 and sometimes grown to a height and fulness of 

 inflorescence which makes it a strikingly interest- 

 ing spectacle. These things go in waves — waves 

 of interest in the thing seen — my moral from this 

 being: let more of us indulge from time to time in 

 what is new. Let us try arrangements of new 



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