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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
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near a hedge. Cats can, and will, creep 
under the shrubs, and, hidden there, will 
lie in wait and do much harm, as feathers 
near the hedge have often testified. 
Peeping out from this hedge here and 
there were dainty little Columbines, with 
their graceful bells in different colors. 
Forget-me-nots were blue with their 
blossoms through the summer, and in the 
fall the asters along the front of the 
hedge were glorious. Directly in front of 
the house, at the north of the brick wall, 
were masses of bridal-wreath bushes, and 
a great, golden forsythia made sunny the 
northeast corner of the yard. Tartarian 
honeysuckles formed the north line to the 
house. All along its north foundation 
wall and hugging up close to it were lilies- 
of-the-valley and ferns. 
Over the front of the house itself grew 
wonderful clematis vines that were full of 
little white blossoms in the fall, making 
the air sweet with their fragrance. One 
of these vines grew onto and over the lilac 
tree at the corner of the house. This was 
the old front yard. 
Between it and the back yard there used 
to be a high board fence. I was glad to 
miss it. The old back yard was given 
over to the clothes-drier, with its great, 
long arms, its platform and steps; to board 
walks and ash heaps; to the well and 
pump; to barn and chicken yard ; to corn¬ 
field and vegetable garden. The day of 
the great clothes reel is past, but the mem¬ 
ory of the joy that came as we hung to 
the arm of this reel while we were rapidly 
swung around will be ever with us. Were 
you ever a little girl who was compelled to 
play in the back yard, never stepping foot 
in the front yard in your play? If you 
were, you will understand me when I say 
that my first glance at this back yard when 
I saw it last summer made me long to be 
again a little girl, compelled to play only 
there, where there seemed to be every¬ 
thing to make interesting a little girl’s play. 
A splendid apple tree grew here, and a 
mulberry tree full of fruit attractive to 
the birds. A hedge of lilac and sumac hid 
the back fence completely. A woodbine 
and wild grape vine covered the south side 
and front of the barn, and the space once 
claimed by the ash heap and board walk 
had been transformed into a most inviting 
spot. Cherry, syringa and sumac trees 
made an effective corner, in front of which 
was a long, curved bed full of hollyhocks, 
foxglove, gladioli, snapdragons, pyre- 
thrums, zinnias and a border of love-in- 
the-mist. The wide beds in front of the 
back and south hedges were a mass of 
color all through the season. First came 
the oriental poppies in many shades, then 
the iris and peonies. Later came the crown¬ 
ing beauty of the year—the Canterbury 
bells and the foxgloves. After these had 
gone,hollyhocks, platycodons, snapdragons 
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