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Vol. I. No. 45 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL: DEVOTED-TO0-THE BEST: INTERESTS-OF THENORTH-SHORE: 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1905 
EF LBPwoun, 
Three Cents 
Three Thousand Plants 
of Golden Glow. 
[The following description by Jeffrey S. 
Reed of Manchester, which appears in 7he 
Garden Magazine for April, will prove of 
interest to our readers. The article is re- 
printed by permission and the picture of 
Mr. Reed’s garden, so familiar to many of 
our readers, is reproduced through courtesy 
of The Garden Magazine, also.—ED.]} 
I was awarded first prize for the 
best-kept grounds by the Village Im- 
provement society at Manchester, 
Mass. Mylot is 45 x 114 ft., andabout 
half of it is occupied by my restaurant 
and dwelling. The lot is enclosed by 
a board fence 6 ft. high, which I can- 
not control. This‘fence is an annoy- 
ance to me. I should much prefer a 
wire fence that could be completely 
covered with vines. To hide the fence 
as much as possible, I chose Rudbeckia 
Golden Glow. I could not afford to 
GARDEN SCENE, MANCHESTER, 
buy enough plants to screen the whole 
fence in one season, but in four years I 
have succeeded in hiding the whole 
fence without paying a cent for plants. 
Four years ago a friend gave me about 
a peck of roots, which when divided 
and set a foot apart, made a single row 
about ten or twelve ft. long. The 
second spring, I dug up all the plants, 
divided them, and had a row of fifty or 
sixty ft.long. The third season, I dug 
Courtesy of The Garden Magazine. 
This yard has a six-foot board fence completely hidden by Rudbeckia Golden Glow, of which about three thousand plants were 
propagated at home in four years from a peck of roots, 
