June, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS XV 
meeting point of sand and marsh? Which 
plants will endure salt spray, and which will 
endure occasional submergence by perigee 
tides? How far down over tidal rivers 
does the sweet flag (4corus Calamus) 
grow? 
The oaks are little understood. They 
grow throughout the country, but how 
many people can predict with certainty 
where any species will be found or will be 
absent ? 
When one has a particularly difficult prob- 
lem in planting a study of the plants grow- 
ing wild under similar conditions is obvi- 
ously necessary, but with any problem 
some knowledge of the sort is desirable. 
In ornamental planting we often see many 
shrubs struggling against impossible con- 
ditions—impossible for them, but quite fav- 
orable for some other plant of equal beauty 
though of different characteristics. 
The accidental groupings of trees, shrubs 
and plants which one sees while in the re- 
ceptive mood induced by a Summer vaca- 
tion are full of suggestions for the thought- 
ful amateur. The reproduction of such 
groups will perhaps be difficult, but it is not 
impossible if one studies the soil and situa- 
tion and the fortuitous circumstances which 
have made the group possible. The asso- 
ciation of species under natural conditions 
will give one ideas for grouping plants, and 
will prevent such absurdities as the com- 
No Locks are Yale Locks unless made by Yale & Towne 
That your Builders’ 
Hardware should be 
Yale is obvious. 
That you will have the Master-key 
System is not so obvious, because you 
may not yet know the convenience, 
safety, compactness and efhciency of 
the Yale Master-key, especially as 
expressed in the Yale Bicentric Lock. 
The Yale Bicentric Lock has two key- _ Send for 
bination of cedars and willows. 
Observations of many ornamental plant- 
ings should quickly give one an idea of the 
most useful trees and shrubs, and the 
older the plantations are the more useful 
will be their testimony. 
Japanese barberry is a most satisfactory 
shrub, but sometimes it fails completely. 
ways—one for the Master-key, the other 
for the individual key. Each throws a 
different set of pin-tumblers which oper- 
ate the same bolt. The Yale Bicentric 
Lock—or, for that matter, any Yale 
Cylinder Lock or Yale Bit-key Lock with 
Master-key—can be installed with the 
Builders’ Hardware at the same time 
these books: 
The Norway spruce is, of course, the fam- 
ous example of an introduced tree ill suited 
to this climate. There are many others 
equally unsuited, and the signs of their un- 
suitability should begin to show in many 
plantations. One can never know, of 
course, what the absolute failures have 
been. They die and are taken out within 
the year usually, but much can be learned 
by a study of the flourishing or struggling 
remainder. 
This book applies 
without additional cost for installing. the Master Key 
Theapplication of the principleissowide \ir ae woing to 
that the padlock on your chicken coops _ build or rebuild. 
may be opened with the same Master- 
key that unlocks the big front door. 
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are capable of excellent use in the garden 
and a study of their characteristics and re- 
quirements will be well worth while. The 
partridge berry (Mitchella repens) is very 
beautiful and might be very useful in cer- 
tain situations. 
If it is to be beautiful, ornamental plant- 
ing must be luxuriant in growth, which 
means that the plants must be well suited 
with the climate, the situation, and the 
soil. In many cases this must mean that 
the plantation is composed in large part of 
native plants. 
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FISH IN FROZEN DEPTHS 
UBA ends to the south in a huge for- 
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As in our world, none but the vegetables 
are able to make food, it ought to follow 
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