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St. Louis, Mo. 
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A complete exposition of 
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This valuable book of plans , 
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The Mathews Manufacturing Co. 
909 Williamson Bldg Cleveland, 
four weeping mulberry trees, spaced about 
twenty feet apart. This gave us ample 
shrubbery for the west side of the place, 
and where to find sun for it was some¬ 
thing of a study, for the glory of the place 
was the big forest trees left standing when 
the lot was cleared. We had twenty-seven 
of them, and, even with all the spindly 
ones taken out, those that were left to 
shade the house did not allow any too 
much sunlight for the grass and not enough 
for the roses. 
Around the chimney base the lady de¬ 
cided to put her rhododendrons and Eng¬ 
lish ivy. The chimney being on the west 
side of the house, and the west lawn hav¬ 
ing many large trees on it besides the 
forest wall, it got no direct sunlight at all. 
But both ivy and rhododendrons were in¬ 
tended by Nature to thrive in the shade, 
and with the one climbing up the chimney 
and the other surrounding its base we did 
very well with our greenery for it. The 
ivy plants cost 25 cents each, in little pots 
with perhaps two feet of vine; at the end 
of the first season they had climbed up 
five feet, and in the second season extended 
nine feet up the chimney. Rhododendrons 
at 75 cents to $1.50 a bush went rapidly 
into money, for it took seven or eight of 
them to make any sort of showing around 
that chimney base. 
For the central bed of the round turn 
of the drive we used three syringas, two 
barberry bushes, three roses, two snow¬ 
balls and a transplanted sassafras from 
the forest. The sweet syringa or mock- 
orange is an old favorite, and it has the 
custom of growing very large in a short 
time, so that it wants plenty of room. 
Ours grew from small 50-cent plants to 
large bushes in three years, and bore flow¬ 
ers their second season. The barberries 
started as little 25-cent brooms, but spread 
all about, so that long, feathery shoots 
from them were well interlaced in the rest 
of the shrubbery. 
We felt that the turn of the knoll at the 
end of the porch needed a little group of 
evergreens, not over three of them. These 
three ought all to he exceedingly orna¬ 
mental and striking in appearance, and for 
them we chose a deodar or Indian cedar, a 
golden biota and a Japanese maple. It 
needed a little more filler, so I added a 
solid, feathery hemlock in behind the 
clump and a retinospora of the whorled 
plumage variety (there are a million 
retinosporas, all beautiful!) and the group 
was complete. The deodar is not hardy 
much north of Asbury Park, but it is' a 
most beautiful object, a feathery-green 
fountain of a pale silver-blue green with 
needles as delicate as a larch. Ours has 
gone through five severe winters with no 
other aid than a board screen to the north¬ 
west and plenty of forest leaves piled 
around it in the fall. The golden biota 
is a small, compact, golden-yellow ever¬ 
green, with its leaves set on edge like the 
leaves of a book, always a striking note 
in any clump of evergreens in which it may 
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