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mine is for ever changing. Happily, each new de- 

 velopment reveals new beauty of aspect or new 

 possibility of good treatment, such as, rightly appre- 

 hended and then guided, tends to a better state than ' 

 before. 



Meanwhile the httle tree-embowered garden has a 

 quiet charm of its own. It seems to delight in its 

 character of a Hidden Garden, and in the pleasant 

 surprise that its sudden discovery provokes. For 

 between it and its owner there is always a pretty little 

 play of pretending that there is no garden there, 

 and of being much surprised and delighted at finding, 

 not only that there is one, but quite a pretty one. 



The Hidden Garden is so small in extent, and its 

 boundaries are already so well grown, that there is no 

 room for many of the beautiful things of the time of 

 year. For May is the time for the blooming of the 

 most important of our well-known flowering shrubs — 

 Lilac, Guelder Rose, White Broom, Laburniun, and 

 Pyrus Malus flonbunda. But one shrub, as beautiful 

 as any of these and as easily grown, seems to be for- 

 gotten. This is Exochorda grandiflora — related to the 

 Spiraeas. Its pearl-Uke buds have earned it the name 

 of Pearl Bush, but its whole lovely bloom should before 

 now have secured it a place in every good garden. 



Every one knows the Guelder Rose, with its round 

 white flower-balls, but the wild shrub of which this 

 is a garden variety is also a valuable ornamental bush 

 and should not be neglected. It is a native plant, 

 growing in damp places, such as the hedges of water- 

 meadows and the sides of streams. The English name 



