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ter two to four quarts per tree, 
if thoroughly worked through 
the soil, will pay for itself many 
times over in the rapid healthy 
growth induced. In hollows, or 
on ground apt to be wet, it will 
pay well to furnish additional 
drainage by digging the holes 
several feet deep, and putting in 
two feet or so of small stones, 
broken rock or something of the 
kind, covering this with old bags 
or meadow hay to prevent earth 
setting into the chinks when first 
filling in the holes. If it is dry 
when setting out, water in the 
holes when the earth is half 
filled in—not on the surface. 
All the care required by most 
of the hardy shrubs is a slight 
yearly going-over to keep in good 
shape—not pruning—and an oc¬ 
casional cultivation around the 
roots to keep the soil crust brok¬ 
en up. While most of the hardy 
shrubs do not need protection, it 
will be a good thing to give them 
a mulching around the roots with 
old manure late in the fall, espe¬ 
cially for the first few years until 
they get their full growth. 
Directions for pruning and re¬ 
storing old shrubs will be found 
on page 228 of this number. 
The list of hardy shrubs is so 
varied that no attempt to go over 
it here is possible; but in passing I want to call attention to a few 
exceptionally attractive sorts or new varieties. Among the de¬ 
ciduous shrubs besides those which everybody knows, such as the 
hydrangeas, are the splendid varieties of althea'and azaleas. For 
that hedge which you have been contemplating and which would 
look so much more attractive than the present fence, Berberis 
Thunbergii is the peerless shrub. For seven or eight dollars you 
can get fifty strong three-year plants, furnishing a beautiful, 
effective hedge seventy-five to one hundred and fifty feet in 
length. Personally, I 
would rather not crowd 
plants in hedges. Let 
them have a chance to 
attain some individuality. 
Be sure to include at least 
one of that old sweet- 
scented favorites, the 
strawberry shrub ( Caly - 
canthus Florid us). Plant 
it near the house, where 
its fragrance may enter 
every open window in the 
spring days. For an in¬ 
dividual specimen, at a lit¬ 
tle distance so that its full 
effect will be had, put a 
smoke tree (Rhus Coti- 
nus ). That will cost you 
the sum of twenty-five 
cents! Its relative, R. 
Glabra, the sumach, with 
its beautiful colors in the fall 
will be worth while, too. Then 
there are the beautiful flowered 
deutzias and weigelias—a whole 
flower garden in a few beauti¬ 
ful little trees. (Half a dozen 
of each, in varied colors, would 
cost, for the lot, $2.50 or $3.00). 
And then there are the spiraeas. 
Few people realize that there 
are more than one or two vari¬ 
eties. At a quarter each you 
can afford several of the many 
sorts—and include "Walluf,” 
the new crimson spiraea. 
Among the hardy evergreens 
there are the azaleas, rhododen¬ 
drons, laurel, ericas (heaths). 
The azaleas, both deciduous 
and hardy, are the most beauti¬ 
ful, but at the same time the 
most likely not to do well. Un¬ 
less they can be given plenty of 
water they should be mulched 
for moisture in dry hot weather, 
and for protection in winter 
north of the southern New 
Eng land States. Covering 
with light pine boughs or 
something similar will protect 
the buds from the injury likely 
to result from premature start¬ 
ing in the spring. 
The lily-of-the-valley shrub 
is another beauty. Japonica, 
with its dark green foliage and 
pendant racemes of beautiful white blossoms is not only very 
attractive, but very hardy. 
The coniferous evergreens are very varied, and with their 
beautiful forms and variations of light and dark green, golden 
and silver-blue foliage, certainly offer the best of material for 
creating the winter garden pictures. These are more expensive, 
costing from $1.50 to $4 or $5 each. But if only one in every two 
or three years can be afforded, they will make the foundation for 
the most effective and permanent ornaments in the entire garden. 
The question of fall 
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18 .. Gr sidered—of roses espe- 
OTlM cially. Most of the prun- 
BB-big required by roses will 
■ be accomplishe<l by the 
spring cutting back and 
jBi : by cutting the blooms in 
■Wait mliy ' summer. But where 
Hi >tn>ng new growth lias 
S ' been made, and the canes 
umsmmza-" -< are likely to be whipped 
about bv the wind, they 
should be cut back after 
the leaves fall, to two and 
a half or three feet. 
Do not be in a hurry to 
put on the winter mulch¬ 
ings ; all mulching of 
hardy plants is not so 
much to protect from 
frost as to prevent alter- 
Why does the amateur neglect the hardy shrubs? There are many 
corners that Berberis Thunbergii, for instance, might beautify 
Mulching of hardy plants is not so much to protect from frost as to prevent 
alternate freezing and thawing. Romneya Coulteri, the tree poppy, bound 
up in straw to accomplish this result 
