I admire the hybrids and implore the culture of the worthy 

 novelties but we must not scorn the dear old flowers or think o£ 

 them as "common." I know an "old-fashioned" lady who speaks 

 quite casually of "when I was a young woman of seventy, etc." 

 She has always been a gardener and at ninety years of age prunes 

 and trains all her roses. 



nature's miniatores 



Owarf Boxwoods 



IT hey call us dwarfe those gai-deners 

 A name thats not at all ^ir, 

 For dwazfs are deformed and so ug^ 

 M^re smallfLut tLe semblance ends tliere. 



..Pl s tke miniatcnre is to the portrait. 



So are we to tke big things tLat grow, 

 For heauty n.ot size is our watchword. 

 W^re snutll hut important you ^ow. 



jES, they are "Nature's Miniatures small but important" — 

 just how important we amateurs are beginning to under- 

 stand. Fifteen years ago a noted English landscape archi- 

 tect came to the United States as consultant in the making of a 

 certain well-known garden. The box hedges he designed are still 

 the same, all dwarf except the accentuations, all quaint, all are 

 possible somewhere in every garden. Yet, how often do we see 

 these naive little green possibilities. We will take into considera- 



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