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den soil suits them, they prefer deep sandy 
loam with a little leaf mould. The soil 
should be about four inches over the bulb. 
Usually the bulbs are not to be had until 
toward the first of November, but it is far 
better to plant them then than in the spring 
after they have been stored all winter. 
There are two boltonias, the white B. 
asteroides and the pink B. latisquama. The 
white is the better, but both should be 
planted for bold, tall effects. Before 
August is over they produce their great 
flower heads and presage the coming of 
the wild asters, which they greatly resem¬ 
ble. They spread very rapidly. 
As to omissions, the peony, which is best 
planted in September, does not appear on 
the list because it was fully treated in the 
previous issue. Again, the invaluable Can¬ 
terbury bell, foxglove and hollyhock are 
left out for the reason that they are bi¬ 
ennials — ignorance of which fact causes 
many an amateur to wonder why they are 
lost after blooming. All the spring bulbs 
are fillers in any hardy garden scheme. 
They may be, and should be, planted in the 
spaces between the perennials. Finally, 
there are the fall-blooming perennials, the 
finest of which are Anemone Japonica, 
Aconitum autumnalis and the artemisia 
or hardy chrysanthemum. These should be 
planted in spring; a space may easily be 
left tor them in the garden scheme. 
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Restoring Old Shrubs to Vigor 
(Continued from page 229) 
through neglect, a shrub finds its nourish¬ 
ment diminished by the depredatious weeds 
and grasses it promptly reduces its leafi¬ 
ness at the top. As the full number of 
branches are present just the same, this 
means that they cannot be so well clothed 
that many will be bare. And then grad¬ 
ually the whole plant grows weak from 
hunger. Its root activity reduces as well 
as its top, for there is nothing for so many 
roots to do; its vitality gets lower and 
lower, and by the time someone takes it in 
hand it has probably only enough feeding 
roots to supply a bush half its size. It is 
then truly a weak plant. 
Severe pruning reduces the top to a 
size which the roots can once more take 
care of; enriching the soil stimulates the 
growth of more roots, and these in turn 
furnish so much building material that the 
top simply has to grow to make use of it. 
It is built up in spite of itself, fairly pushed 
out from below, unless the water sprouts 
which spring from so low on the branches 
that they are in a position to divert the 
upflowing life forces, are allowed to grow 
and to do just this. 
Old shrubs which have not sent up these 
sucker forms of wood, but which have sim¬ 
ply stood still—probably because no one 
has ever come by to pick their blossoms or 
no wind has ever broken down a branch— 
can only be thinned rather severely, cut 
back at their tops moderately and en- 
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