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GROUPING FOR INSTRUCTION. 
In presenting a few hints on the grouping of the 
roses and other plants closely allied with them — 
such as Spireas — 1 would say in the first place that 
there is no need whatever to mix them with Poeon- 
ias or poppies or pinks or anything of that series. 
They have lots of such color of their own for most 
of the seasons, — in many parts of the world for all 
the seasons. It is intensely stupid of course for a 
gardener to entertain ideals without means at his 
command to carry them out or even drum around 
to interest others. Rut then a body needs diver- 
sion of some sort you know. 
Now, these roses and things as I have said are 
SKETCH OF GROUPING. 
very popular, and planted together make an amaz- 
ing brave show in shades of white, yellow, occa- 
sionally orange, maroon, red, pink and parti-colors, 
and any of these may prevail more or less at some 
time or the other, with a sprinkling of most of 
them all the time. Maybe I had best begin at the 
bottom and work up. Well, it is best to prepare 
the ground thoroughly, study its quality or quali- 
ties, and refrain from bothering too much about it 
suiting this, that, or the other thing. Climate is far 
more important. You can’t modify it without arti- 
fice which is not in this contract. You can do some- 
thing with soil. If plants don’t suit the climate, 
and the climate disagrees with them (^you can 
mostly find out roundabout) don’t dicker with them. 
those that do suit. In the mean time your 
lawn is thickening up nicely and has had a mowing 
or two. It hasn’t (if you are wise) been formed on 
a soil that won’t grow clover. 'Fhcn with a lot 
of 18-inch pegs you can go ahead with some such 
outline as the sketch. Throw the pegs out kind o’ 
carelessly, but with some thought as to what each 
one may stand for. On the margins they may be 
four, six, eight feet apart, and they may be six or 
eight feet through the inside, but several should be 
two foot stakes at i 5 or 20 or more feet apart for 
Hawthorns and flowering jieaches, cherries, [)) rus 
and prunus. And the smaller chaps such as that 
wonderful prunus lauro- cerasns from the Shipka 
pass, and Stephanandras and heaps of roses and 
Amalanchiers and things will fill up the spaces. 
Yes they’re all near relations. But I was mention- 
ing about the pegs — when you throw them out you 
had better have a man follow with a mallet to drive 
them down fast where they lay. He might count 
them if you think you could trust him to count. 
You can’t trust everybody you know, but thats 
neither here nor there. When you have your count 
you can decide when you want your best displa}^ 
whether in the early summer or the autumn for in- 
stance. Sometimes you can decide all this in ad- 
vance— -have it all cut and dried as it were. You 
can make up your numbers with a single one of the 
expensive trees, and two or three of cheaper ones 
about as good; lots of the best things are cheap. 
Prunus Pennsylvanica, Pyrus acuparia,.P. arbuti- 
folia vars., Crataegus coccinea, C. oxycantha vars. , 
C. tomentosa, and others, and a lot — maybe 50 or 
100 if the group will hold them of Crataegus Pyra- 
cantha in variety. They’re evergreen you know. 
Yes you can get that cherry laurel but it’s dear for 
such a hardy affair. I’m not urging it. If these 
things don’t live with you try some spireas or Amel- 
anchiers, or you may like a show of orange when 
maybe Kerria Japonica would fill the bill — you see 
I don’t know where you live — and that bothers me. 
But you can just have a lot of such things fo fill up 
with. Then you can make up the balance of your 
number with threes and fives, buy ’em by the half 
dozen’at dozen rates, and lay the spare ones away 
in a reserve ground against such phenomena as dry 
seasons and the like. They come along sometimes 
you know. 
What kinds should they be? Well, for early 
summer you can get Spirea Cantonensis, cana, con- 
ferta, betulifolia, discolor, japonica Bumalda and 
others, and also the nine barks, Neillia opulifolia 
and its yellow leaved sort, golden they call it. You 
can get a lot of Potentillas and Gillenia trifoliata 
and plant ’em in beds and a whole host of H. P. 
roses just about the same for color as sweet Wil- 
