Permit no weak or dead branches to fill their 

 centres. If there are any, remove them, so that all 

 their vigor, all their energy will be conserved for 

 the flowering branches, and please under no 

 circum^ances permit suckers to sap the vitality 

 of the bush. Watch out for them and cut them 

 away as soon as discovered. In the Autumn give all 

 your lilacs a good liming, about a pint of lime to 

 each small one, and a quart to a large bush. Then 

 you will have the genuine satisfaction of knowing 

 you have given your lilacs the thought and care 

 they merit — surely this is very little. 



TREASURE TREES AND SHRUBS 



^ When making out your li^s of lovely things 

 for your garden please place Bechtel's double 

 flowering crab among the indispensables, and if 

 you have a fine group of evergreen trees, let them 

 be the background for the radiant Bechtels. 

 ^ Have you ever seen the dwarf pink rose Gretna 

 Kluis? If you have, I need not tell you about the 

 form and color and sweetness of Bechtel's flower- 

 ing crab because they are absolutely identical, the 

 same deep, round, double, richly tinted pink 



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