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_ July, 1910 
A Shrubbery Group of Wild 
Things 
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glossy leaves the next spring, it was beau¬ 
tiful. 
The beautiful wild white Clematis 
(Clematis Virginiana) grew rampant 
along a pasture fence, and a Wild Grape 
was traced by the scent of its blossoms to 
the side of a spring, where a White Birch 
(Betula populifolia ) proved irresistible, 
and in the fall almost undigable, because 
its roots were given to twisting themselves 
around the roots of everything else within 
reach. But its beauty, when the planting 
was finally made, compensated for the 
work. 
Wild Roses, you may be sure, had their 
place — half a dozen of them, and marked 
stakes were driven where clumps of espe¬ 
cially good perennial herbaceous plants 
were to be found — dainty pink, spreading 
Dogbane, gorgeous Black-eyed Susans 
and Golden-rod of several different varie¬ 
ties, and seeds were gathered and planted 
as soon as gathered, for most of the wild 
flowers need parts of two seasons to get 
started. 
When the autumn came, all these 
shrubs were transplanted. There is al¬ 
ways the danger that someone else has 
been prompted by the tags and stakes to 
appropriate your discoveries, and unless 
you have kept some sort of a memoran¬ 
dum you are apt to forget some of them 
yourself. The consolation is that there 
are always more shrubs to be had at the 
same price. In planting, the earth around 
the roots of the shrubs was kept loose and 
damp, each plant as it was taken up had 
been cut back just one-half, and. in a 
couple of years, the east end was decked 
in luxurious foliage worthy of a stately 
park, and each shrub brought forth, not 
alone its natural blossoms, but a bouquet 
of reminiscences that, to those concerned, 
were fully as delightful as the flowers 
themselves. 
Hiding Gaunt Rose Stems. 
W HEN the amateur gardener strolls 
among his Roses he will, perhaps, 
wonder that Nature should order so many 
gaunt bare stems under the blessing of 
luxuriant blossoming. As a matter of 
fact (and of course anyone who knows 
anything about Roses at all knows that), 
Nature has ordered nothing of the sort. 
It is man’s doing, with his propensity for 
grafting Roses on other plant-stems, a 
necessity it is true, but one which his in¬ 
genuity, in turn, will require to be meet 
to cover up the bareness that one may 
feel called upon to complain of. Now the 
Honeysuckle solves the problem in certain 
gardens. It is often safe as a vine to 
clamber upon the base stems of such 
lovely Roses as the Frau Karl Dnischki.” 
For such purpose Lonicera fuchsoides is 
one of the best Honeysuckles. It should 
he kept in bounds by pruning, and an 
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