A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



suggestion for a whole small garden, for by the 

 exercise of ingenuity and some hunting through 

 plant lists, flowers may be had to bloom together 

 in the later season as these do in an earlier one. 

 This early spring group just described is love- 

 liness itself; it is again referred to as I now write 

 of a planting at the edge of the grass nearest the 

 street from the house, which has been and is a 

 source of continued trouble and regret to me. 

 This planting is made up of ancient bushes of 

 Japanese quince, which have not done well, of 

 one or two fine young seedling elms, a mulberry- 

 tree and two or three tall old maples shading 

 the street and headed out when young in the ar- 

 boreally ignorant fashion prevailing in our part 

 of Michigan some thirty years ago. A few 

 struggling plants of Juniperus sahina mentioned 

 above complete for me the misery of this plant- 

 ing. All winter it is a horror to me; but the mo- 

 ment the robin's song is heard the dogwood takes 

 on its wondrous carmine from the sap upflowing 

 — it is the European osier dogwood — thou- 

 sands of crocuses in loveliest patterns bloom be- 

 low the still bare stems and twigs; marsh mari- 

 golds show their yellow in a low and moist part 

 of the ground, and the little uncurling fronds of 



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