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large enough to develop character. The lovely- 

 native radiata has flourished since I moved it from 

 its place in the sun, giving its pleasing flowers in 

 early July, and its more pleasing leaf show every 

 time the breeze turned their silver under sides 

 upward for a moment. 



A July shrub notability in this part of the world 

 is the bloom of the dwarf horse-chestnut — Msculus 

 parviflora. It is most striking and impressive, 

 even on the little plant that took three years to 

 start, and then astonished us this July. 



Of the pink summer-blooming spireas, Anthony 

 Waterer and Margaritse are worth while, because 

 they add color, while providing no such burst of 

 bloom as do the spring-blooming varieties. 



The sweet peas give us their opening effort 

 right after July fourth. In the Breeze Hill years 

 the results have been various, but never entirely 

 bad. One year the two-foot trench, the rich soil, 

 the trellis and the weather — especially the latter — 

 were evidently quite pleasing to Madame Sweet 

 Pea, for she came early and numerously, and 

 stayed long with us. Of a July morning, before Old 

 Sol had gotten into his full heat-stride, the mass of 

 new-opened and really sweet pea-flowers was as 

 showy as the June blackberry-row blossoms, and 

 far more interesting in detail. These newer Spen- 



