HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
IQIO 
The Black-eyed Susan is another flower that 
we would import if it did not grow plen¬ 
tifully in the fields 
The wild Aster can be dug up from the road¬ 
side and will thrive under cultivation 
House. 
Torek 
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settled. In the 
meantime the west 
end of the lot was 
plain lawn of in¬ 
different appear¬ 
ance. 
They now be¬ 
gan in earnest, and 
prepared the soil by working it into shape as if they were expect¬ 
ing a carload of things from a nursery. In the summer evenings 
He spaded the ground and 
broke up all lumps. T hey 
outlined the plantation in a 
sort of irregular border such 
as they had seen in the land¬ 
scape work of neighboring 
places. 
"Our shrubs grew in the 
woods; we’d better get some 
old decaying leaves, and some 
leaf-mould.” So they hired a 
boy to scrape up and draw to 
the garden a load of leaf- 
mould, and the mistress went 
with him to the woods as offi¬ 
cial overseer to be sure the 
boy scraped and collected only 
the fine, soft black substance 
from the top of the woodland 
earth—the true leaf-mould. 
A little sand, which the 
plasterer had left, was mixed 
with this soil for the sake of 
drainage, and this load of 
leaf-mould with a small load 
of fertilizer from a barnyard 
nearby was well mixed into 
it by turning with a fork and 
spade. The ground then had 
to be left to warm and soften 
in the summer sun, with only 
a digging over each two or 
three weeks to turn the weeds 
under. In the fall it was in 
excellent condition. 
At the edge of a swamp 
down the road, not far away, 
they found a Black Haw 
( Viburnum prunifolium ), and 
near it, among the Hazel 
brush, a yellow 
Honeysuckle vine 
and these they like¬ 
wise marked for 
up in the 
taking 
fall. 
An 
b u s h 
Elderberry 
(Sambucus 
A white Clematis may occasionally be found 
on an old tree stump or fence 
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Canadensis) was trailing its black berries from a fence corner as 
they passed on one of their long tramps, and that, too, was 
promptly marked for trans- 
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The shrubbery border as finally planted appeared thus 
W.—Woodbine 
C. — Clematis 
P. — Pium 
H. C. — High-bush Cranberry 
W. R. — Wild Rose 
M. S.—Meadow Sweet 
G-r.—Golden-rod 
D. 15 .—Dog Bane 
B. V.—Blue Vervain 
B. S.—Black-eyed Susan 
A. — Asters 
E. —Elder 
T. S.—Tall Sumach 
S. — Shrub Sumach 
B. S.—Bitter Sweet 
G. — Wild Grape 
B. — White Birch 
G. B. — Gooseberry 
Co. — Cornus 
T.—Thornapple (Hawthorne) 
B. H.—Black Haw 
P. A. — Prickly Ash 
The tall Sumach has not only the merit of rich fern-like summer ver¬ 
dure but crimson fruits in fall and winter 
planting. Coming home they 
saw at a little distance a thicket 
of wild Plums, so they went 
nearer to see if there were 
small trees among them. In 
addition to the plums there 
were three or four Cornel 
(Cornus Mas) bushes that 
bear such beautiful blue-black 
berries, each on a small crim¬ 
son stem. 
Sumach (Rhus Canadensis 
and Rhus cotinoidcs) was easy 
to get, and very desirable for 
its vivid color in the autumn; 
and finally some Prickly Ash 
(Xanthoxylum Americanum ) 
showed its scarlet seeds from 
the bushes along a country 
road, and was tagged care¬ 
fully for transplanting. 
Bitter Sweet (Cclastrus 
scandens) and Woodbine 
(Anipelopsis quinquefolia) 
were not hard to find, for the 
mistress knew the limestone 
ledge was the kind of place 
the first would likely have for 
a home, and Woodbine (or 
Virginia Creeper) is likely to 
be found wherever a bit of 
woods has for a few years 
been left undisturbed. 
A Gooseberry bush was the 
find of another tramp one day, 
and marked for transplanting. 
And truly, when it was in 
place and sent out its clear-cut 
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