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BRIDE AND BRIDESMAID 

 MARIE VON HOUTTE 

 PAPA GONTIER 



may also be placed with considerable 

 effect, and they should be so planted, 

 against the foundation of the house and 

 in the corners of the drives and walks. 

 Keep the walks and road on one — the 

 least desirable — side of the lawn. Do 

 not have the yard cut up in small 

 checker-board plats by walks going 

 everywhere, and do not have a walk run 

 all the way around the house, where it 

 always has to be looked at. 



Better put your flower bed near the 

 brirder and not in the middle of the 



lawn, where it reminds one of a button 

 sewed on the knee of your trousers — out 

 of place and no reason for it being there. 

 Put it near the shrubbery, where it 

 serves only to add to the decorative value 

 of the frame which surrounds the lawn 

 picture. 



Too often grading about a place is 

 overlooked entirely. Grade down the 

 terraces, fill the sink holes and give a 

 gentle, undulating, rolling surface to the 

 lawn that it may more naturally reflect 

 the lights and shadows of the clouds 

 which fly above it. 



The native elm, the sugar maple, the 

 walnut, the linden and the oak are our 

 best shade and street trees, while in 

 choosing our shrubbery we should cling 

 to the good, substantial species which 

 have stood by us a hundred years rather 

 than to the horticultural specimens, most 

 of which are freaks and contortions of 

 plant growth, and which attract our 

 attention only through their outlandish- 

 ness and the high prices attached to 

 them. Why should anyone for a moment 

 desire that upside-down flowerless speci- 

 men called Teas' weeping mulberry, 

 which is peddled from door to door by 

 the "tree quack," when for half the price 

 he can enjoy the glory and fragrance of 

 a mock orange or that most splendid of 

 all shrubs, Van Houtte's spiraea, some- 

 times called bridal wreath. 



Don't get discouraged by trying to do 

 everything at once. Would you have 

 your boy become a man in a day? The 

 love you bear him is due to the fact that 

 he has grown up with you, and you have 

 cared for him, and could only see him 

 improve hour by hour and year by year. 



So it should be with your yard. Make 

 a plan and carry it out from time to 

 time. Always look forward to your 

 highest ideal. Buy some of the garden 

 magazines. Look at the pictures of com- 

 fortable farm homes which have been 

 cared for. See where your own needs 

 changing. 



Get in the habit of sending for nursery 

 catalogues and seed catalogues, whether 

 you intend to buy or not. 



Do you realize what wonderful flower- 

 ing effects you ban get from five cents' 

 worth of annual flower seeds? 



Astors, poppies, phlox drummondii and 

 corn flowers will bloom for you as well 

 as for the millionaire, and probably 

 better. Do not fail to plant some peren- 

 nials. These plants die down to the 

 ground every winter but come forth with 

 added strength -each succeeding year. 

 You will be surprised how fast they 

 multiply, what little care they need and 

 what a wonderful wealth of bloom they 

 will produce. Some of the best to begin 

 with are peonies, phlox, delphinium, lilies 

 and hollyhocks. 



Cover the old. fence and the wood- 

 house with Virginia creeper and clematis, 

 or with Hall's honeysuckle, and then as 

 you come in from the farm fields the 

 day will look less long and the evening 

 shadows will harbor sweet memories of 

 childhood days, when our grandmothers 

 sat in their rose gardens and planned the 

 hours that made "Home, Sweet Home." 



KILLARNEY 

 MY MARYLAND 

 J. B. CLARK 



OREGON FRUIT MEN ELECT.— The Rogue 

 River Fruit and Produce Association has 

 elected the following officers and directors to serve 

 for the ensuing year: Colonel R. C. Washburn, 

 Table Rock, president; F. E. Merrick, Medford; 

 C. E. Whisler, Medford; G. A. Hover, Phoenix; 

 R. H. Parsons, Medford; H. E. Gale, Merlin; 

 A. C. Allen, Medford; A. C. Randall, Talent; L. K. 

 Haak, Eagle Point; K. S. Miller, Medford, secre- 

 tary; C. H. Gillett, Ashland; L. I. 'Wood, Grants 

 Pass; P. J. O'Gara, Medford; J. W. Merritt, Cen- 

 tral Point; C. C. Scott, Phoenix. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



"Better Fruit" is the best and cheapest fruit 

 magazine in existence. Every fruit grower every- 

 where should have it. George Heatherbell, Vic- 

 toria, British Columbia. 



