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Sweetbriar roses must of course be planted 
for the sake of the fragrant gummy tips of 
their new shoots. ; 
Woodruff, which is the flavoring for May 
wine, is easily grown. 
The bayberry and sweetfern must not be 
neglected, and it is likely that you will plant 
box for its aromatic suggestion of old gardens, 
and chrysanthemums for the leaves. 
Wintergreen is not hard to grow and will 
carpet the ground under the trees. 
Such a garden as this would be excellent for 
the blind who are restricted to the duller and 
less developed senses for their knowledge of 
the world and for their pleasures. It would 
be quite possible to arrange a park for the 
blind so that they could find their way un- 
aided by their sense of smell alone. 
The tactile pleasures to be derived from 
plants we may have occasion ro speak of later. 
PLANTING ON THE SHADY SIDE 
OF A HOUSE 
“Can you suggest an assortment of shrubs 
or other hardy plants that will require little 
direct sunlight?” writes J. C. F. “I want to 
plant them on the east side of my house where 
they will also be shaded by large trees. 
Euonymus is planted next the foundations 
now, and I want to fill the space between 
that and the path, which is about six feet from 
the house.” 
The place seems adapted for rhododendrons 
and kalmias, which would certainly be the 
nicest things to have there. They will not 
bloom much in dense shade, but they will 
grow and keep green throughout the year. I 
suppose the euonymus is E. radicans, which 
will grow on the house. 
If you care to use a deciduous shrub, In- 
dian currant, Symphoricarpus racemosus, 
would be excellent. 
Ferns, Solomon’s seal and herbaceous plants 
of that sort could be used, but I think shrubs 
will be better. 
“Also I should like a vine requiring little 
sunlight that could be trained over two small 
windows.” Clematis jackmanni will grow 
nicely in such a place. 
“Suggestions for the heart-shaped plot of 
ground surrounded by the carriage turn in 
front of the house would also be gratefully 
received. There are about a dozen and a half 
shrubs now in it, which are partially shaded by 
maple trees and have not grown well.” 
These shrubs, as the photograph shows, are 
planted in the turf, each in a separate [ittle. 
hole, instead of being all in one bed as I pre- 
fer to have them, and consequently they look 
thin and spotty. I should bring them together 
or else thicken the mass with a shade enduring 
shrub such as syringa (Philadelphus), wych 
hazel or some of the viburnums. 
The poor growth of the shrubs which are 
there now may be due as much to the maple 
trees robbing the soil as it is to shade. Maples 
are shallow rooted trees and it is always hard 
to make anything grow under them. 
MAKING A COUNTRY HOME 
(Continued from page vii) 
homestead shapes itself and the preliminary 
work has settled down. 
But whatever else you do with flowers, you 
must surely establish a shrubbery. This ought 
to be an odd piece of ground, never in front 
of the house, nor conspicuous, but somewhere 
on a slope or in a swale, where you can go for 
a quiet hour and forget work altogether. You 
can make a shrubbery out of wild native plants 
and get a very good one in that way, for there 
is not a section of the country that does not 
afford a dozen ideal bushes, but not always 
appreciated. To my own shrubbery I add 
small-growing trees with conspicuous flowers, 
