owering 
Shrubs 
T hese shrubs are the most popular and effective varieties to 
transform your back yard into a charming and restful outdoor 
living room, the very shrubs that screen the bareness of your home’s 
foundation will lend charm to the front entrance and provide pretty 
borders and accent corners to the yard. 
Golden Syringa. 
Grows 5 to 6 feet. Blooms May-June. Bright yellow 
foliage and excellent for contrast with other shrubs. 
Plant a Qroup of 
Flowering Shrubs 
To hide the bare foundation wall of the house—to provide screens 
for the garage or hide an ugly building or to frame the rear garden, 
nothing is quite so satisfying as to plant a group of these fine 
flowering shrubs. 
Forsythia Fortune!—Golden Bell. 
Their bright masses of golden yellow appear in April, 
before any foliage, and are welcome harbingers of 
spring. Ultimate height 5 to 7 feet. 
New homes nowadays generally get attractive plantings. Folks realize they are as essential to appearance as draperies and cur¬ 
tains inside. Yet many older homes remain unattractive because of the lack of a simple inexpensive planting. 
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