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A FEW FLOWERS 
The English Ivy, Japanese Ivy, Climbing Hydrangea, and Decumaria are used to climb up and cover the naked 
stems of trees ; and Wistarias and Trumpet Vines to depend from their branches in flowery drapery. 
English Walnuts ripen well, and Spanish Chestnuts, three times as large as our native kind, are borne in tolerable 
plenty ; and in the edge of a wood is a clump of Cob- and Filbert-nut trees that bear pretty well every year. 
One entrance driveway is under an arbor of Pin Oaks, which have been planted on either side of the roadway, and 
bent over in the middle and their points grafted together, to form living arches. A Rose arbor, clad with pink 
and white, hardy, running Roses, leads through the vineyard for 150 yards and ends in a roomy, artistic, vine-clad 
summer-house. 
Vines are used in many ways : The Climbing Hydrangea, English Ivy, Japanese Ivy, and Decumaria cling to and 
cover up the naked stems of old Cedars and the bare trunks of other trees ; Bignonias, Virginia Creeper, and Wistaria reach 
up among the branches and depend 
in graceful flowery spray ; pillars are 
formed of Netted Honeysuckle, 
Trumpet Creeper, and Clematises ; 
buildings are draped and festooned 
with Trumpet Creeper, Japanese 
Honeysuckle, Wistaria, Pipe Vine, 
Actinidia, and Akebia, and here the 
Akebia bears fruit. The Japanese 
Ivy is used to cover stone- and 
brick-work. 
Where vistas have been formed 
across a bluff to show some distant 
view, the bank or slopes are planted 
with Pigmy and Gregory’s Spruces, 
Dwarf Scotch, Dwarf White, and 
Mughus Pines, Hudson’s Bay Silver 
Fir, and other low-growing subjects 
that will never rise above the line 
of vision or need pruning to keep 
them within bounds. And similar 
dwarf trees have also been planted 
near the edge of a driveway passing 
through a plantation of evergreens, 
to leave the road open, dry, and 
sunny. 
There is more pleasure and 
satisfaction in the possession of one 
really handsome fine tree or shrub 
than there is in ninety and nine 
commonplace, misshapen ones. A 
Colorado Blue Spruce is hardier 
than, and as easy to take care of as, 
is a Norway Spruce, besides being 
infinitely more beautiful ; then plant 
it instead of the Norway. And so 
it is with a hundred other kinds. 
And in a variety of trees, shrubs, 
and other hardy plants, we have 
podocarpus japonicus. permanent pleasure and a per¬ 
manently furnished garden. Ever¬ 
greens to cheer us in the winter, trees of many forms, sizes, and colors in summer, beautiful foliage effects from April 
till November, flowers continuously from spring till fall, and ornamental fruit from June till May. And we have 
appropriate subjects for every garden, from the small suburban lot to the urban domain. 
The Golden Oak is the most beautiful among yellow-leaved trees, and River’s Purple Beech the finest crimson¬ 
leaved. Of this Purple Beech there are also weeping forms, and the rare Tricolor-leaved Purple Beech is one of the 
gems of the collection. Pissard’s Plum Tree retains the deep purple-crimson color of its foliage from May till November, 
and the Silver I horn (EUeagnus hortensis) supplies the necessary gray. 
Judging from the host of fine specimens at Dosoris, the following evergreens can be confidently recommended: 
Corean and Swiss Stone Pines, Japanese Hemlock, Blue Mt. Atlas Cedar, Colorado Blue Spruce, Englemann’s Spruce, 
Alcock’s Japanese Spruce, and Parry's Spruce ; Nordman’s, Cilician, Brachyphylla, Colorado White (concolor), and 
