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exhaust the soil and present a starved and wretched appearance the greater part of the summer. We have seen a very 
pretty effect made by planting the Ampelopsis veitchii in the ground at the base and allowing it to cover completely the 
whole surface of the vase and depend in festoons from the top. The Ampelopsis clings closely, preserving the outlines of 
the vase, and is a simple and much more attractive decoration than a few badly-developed bedding plants. 
A well-built rustic summer house is sometimes a beautiful and useful structure, if the grounds are extensive and good 
judgment is used in selecting the location. On suburban lots, where it must be built within a few yards of the dwelling or 
the street, it is a clumsy and useless object, and its room can be much more acceptably occupied by a few fine shrubs 
or plants. 
We will now mention a few of the finer trees and shrubs. We can enumerate a few only that are indispensable, for it 
would require a volume to do justice to the many useful and beautiful ones which abound in Europe and America. 
The Weeping Beech (Fagus sylvaticus pendula) — perhaps the most curious and striking tree of our zone, and one 
that will commend itself more as it becomes better known. The tree usually begins its growth in a great variety of tortuous 
directions and eventually becomes a beautiful weeper, with the appearance of an immense weight pressing its branches to 
the earth. Its fine masses of pendant boughs and glossy, wavy leaves do not entirely hide the occasional uncouthness of 
its branches until it has been a few years planted. 
One of the handsomest large-growing trees is our native Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), which is a really 
magnificent tree, with broad, glossy, sharply-cut, fiddle-shaped leaves and beautiful tulip-like flowers, allied to the Magnolias, 
and, like them, difficult to transplant, unless of small size. 
The Weeping Elm (Ulmus camperdownii) is certainly a very fine tree for the lawn. 1 have growing in our grounds 
a most handsome specimen, planted only about four or five years ago, which has completely sheltered the children 
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EFFECT OF LILIES PLANTED AMONG RHODODENDRONS. 
