verized sheep fertilizer thoroughly cultivated into the soil and flour 

 of bone was given alternately twice a month. Once a month an 

 ounce of Sulphate of Iron was worked into each square yard of 

 soil, and I daresay more roses and more perfect blooms were cut 

 in this "smallish" garden than in many very much larger ones. All 

 of them were hybrid tea and tea roses of the rather long, strong 

 stem type of cutting rose. 



I saw Yucca used in a most unusual and novel manner. Cer- 

 tainly it was a clever gardener who conceived the idea of planting 

 it on the top of an eight foot high retaining wall of rough stone. 



The wall was built evidently for the express purpose of extend- 

 ing the lawn down to the roadway. There were two flights of 

 fieldstone steps leading up to paths that came together at the house 

 entrance. The lawn extended to within thirty inches of the top of 

 the wall and there on the inside, or lawn side, a deep long bed was 

 made. Yucca plants were placed about twenty-five inches apart 

 all the entire length of the wall at the top following the lines of the 

 two sets of steps. Directly against the wall Hall's Honeysuckle 

 showered over on the outside. The Yuccas were very handsome, 

 very regular and very formal ; a strong, beautiful green line on the 

 top of the wall, which, when looking up from the outside, seemed 

 to be fairly growing out of the top of it. It was a most cheerful 

 and unique wall treatment. I understand fifteen hundred Yuccas 

 were there. It was indeed a long, high wall, and the Yuccas and 

 pendulous honeysuckle could be seen for a considerable distance 

 away, attracting much attention and conjecture as to what that 

 splendid green line could be. 



Yucca is without question a noble and regal plant. I saw it 

 bordering a great planting of Rhododendrons, and it made a border 

 even more verdant, more attractive, than the Andromedas. I was 

 surprised. Here I recognized was a perfect affinity. 



Yucca is certainly worthy of more attention than it has yet 

 received. 



I was extremely sorry to see many fine Rhododendron plant- 

 ings that will have but few blossoms this Summer, simply because 



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