MARCH 22 
THE RURAL tfEW-YORKER. 
Oaks, Tulip Tree aud Honey-locust make good 
shade trees, should we need them around our 
houses or elsewhere. But unless required for 
shade, we should not have large trees grow¬ 
ing close to or near our houses, but rather 
towards the outside edge of our lots; and 
should the street or neighborhood be well 
furnished with large trees, we may dispense 
with them, and include Yellow-Wood, 
“Flowering” Thorns, Magnolias, Snow-Drops, 
Judas-Tree, Dogwood, Kodreuteria, aud other 
lesserhut haudsome flowering trees;or Ginkgo, 
Cut leaver] Birch, Cut-leaved Alder and other 
comely and graceful trees; also some ever¬ 
green trees which appear most beautiful when 
young, and can with benefit to their form aud 
appearance be kept under 20 feet for over 20 
I salt hay, lawn-mowings or other "come-at- 
able” material to preserve the ground com¬ 
paratively moist and cool. If you have not 
separate beds for roses, you may grow them 
in front of your shrubbery clumps. 
*** 
Flower-beds, so far assize and number are 
concerned, will depend on the supply of hardy 
or tender plants at command. The old style 
of flower-garden, consisting of a lot of beds of 
all manner of geometrical forms, grouped 
together on the lawn, as represented in most 
gardening books, is, in my opinion, an error, 
and not at all in keeping with progressive 
floriculture. Besides, it can only be used for 
tender plants, as geraniums, altemantheras, 
coleus or the like. Circles, ovals, oblong 
SEEDLING POTATO FROM MONTANA. From Nature. Fig. 94. 
yeans. For instance, the Broad-leaved Hem¬ 
lock, Weeping, Norway, Eugeltnanu’s and 
Blue Spruces; Nordmann’s, Oriental, Doug¬ 
las, Cilicia, Pinsapo aud other Firs; and Swiss 
Stone, Mugho, Umbrella aud Sun raj’ Pines. 
*** 
What siircbs to plant is not of such mo¬ 
ment as trees, as no matter how large they 
may grow, we may shift them at will with 
fair certainty of success. Among deciduous 
shrubs the Japau Suowball, Dwarf Horse- 
Chestnut. Azaleas, Large flowered Pauicled 
Hydrangea, forsythias, Japan quinces, 
althseas, Chinese and African tamarix and 
the like, are showy, well-knowu meritorious 
shrubs And I should especially add Xan- 
thoceras sorbifolia, a little tree with bunches 
of blossoms not unlike those of a horse chest¬ 
nut, aud which blooms when two or three 
feet high. Evergreens should include such 
beautiful arbcr-vitaes as George Peabody, 
figures, and plain beds of like easy pattern 
are the most appropriate, no matter what we 
wish to grow in them, or what pattern we 
wish to displaj’ with the plants used in filling 
them. Remember that it is not in the size, 
form, or uumber of beds that the beauty of a 
flower-garden consists, but in the flowers 
themselves: therefore make the beds to best 
suit the flowers. A multitude of little beds 
show bad taste: besides, they cause much 
more trouble to keep them in good trim than 
the same space would in moderately large 
ones. They may be made near the house, 
near the margin of the lawn, by the road¬ 
side, or in any other desirable place, provid¬ 
ingyou do not cut up the middle of yourlawu 
with them. Sometimes we observe tbe little 
grass plot in front of a suburban house, with 
oue large flower-bed in the middle of it; tben 
we take it for granted that four months of 
geraniums and coleuses are more esteemed tbau 
SEEDLING POTATO FROM MONTANA. From Nature. Fig. 95. 
Queen Victoria, Vervaene’s and Hovey’s; 
Goldeu Yew, Young's Golden Juniper, 
Retiuispora plumosa aud obtusa, hardy 
rhododendrons like Everestiauum, Daphne 
Cneorum, and Andromeda floribunda. In 
planting do uot mix the evergreens with the 
others, but keep each set, for instance, a 
clump of lilacs or of rhixlodeudrous, b>’ them¬ 
selves. Plaut in beds,* borders and clumps. 
Except uenr the outer-edge of your lawn or 
near your boundary lines, do uot mar your 
grass plot by beds of shrubs, or by isolated 
specimens either, lu planting, it is worth 
while to add some good loam, removing some 
of the poorest to make room for it. Plaut 
very firmly, aud for a year or two mulch the 
grouud in Summer with half-rotted leaves, 
twelve mouths of lawu. Iu these center-beds 
we seldom see hardy perennials. 
*** 
Hardy perennials with hardj trees aud 
shrubs are more eharmiug to those who know 
aud really love flowers than are the aristocra¬ 
tic orchids and other tropical plants we nurse 
iu grecu-houses. No sooner has the snow dis¬ 
appeared in March or April, than our lawns 
aud Intrders aud among the brushes, in fact, 
everywhere, may be ablaze with crocuses and 
snowdrops, squills, daffodils, tuid a host of 
other early-blooming bulbs, soon to be accom¬ 
panied by violets, Spring Beauty, auemoues, 
Blood-root, guinea hen flowers, and many oth 
ers. Then in our borders we can go on with 
pansies, hyacinths, tulips, evergreen candy¬ 
tuft, Bleeding Heart, ivies, columbines, paeon- 
ias, rockets, lilies, Sweet Williams, Canter¬ 
bury Bells, fraxinella. bushy evening prim¬ 
roses, bell flowers, larkspurs, yuccas, scabious, 
scarlet pentstemon, variegated monkshood, 
phloxes, white day lilies, Closed Gentiau, Mist- 
flower. gailiardias, Autumn crocuses, Japan 
Anemones, tritoraas. and a multitude besides. 
If we annually top-dress our lawns with ma¬ 
nure or compost, the wild flowers planted in 
the grass will flourish and increase year af ter 
year. Those in our borders need plenty of sur¬ 
face food, but we should avoid digging among 
their roots, unless, as in tbe case of speedwell, 
phloxes aud others that soon form big bunch¬ 
es, they are improved by’ beiug lifted, divided 
and replanted every second year. We will 
get better effects in hardy plants by grouping 
them in masses according to their kinds than 
by dotting them all over, our lots But we 
should so arrange them that the taller ones 
should not smother the smaller, that all should 
have room enough to grow well and display 
themselves to ad vantage, and that there should 
be no scarcity of blossoms at any time from 
March till frost destroys our gardens in Octo¬ 
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