The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . is the love ofthe home and garden rife. It extendsto the farmer and cottager. The farm-er with pride will call your attentionto the fine oaks or maples in his hedge-rows, while the cottager will be hardpinched indeed if he does not find theopportunity to clothe the walls of hiscottage with climbing vines, or hiswindows with boxes of floweringplants. It is the love for gardening,so deeply implanted in the heart ofthe Britisher, which gives to Englandone of its greatest charms. New England is so wonderfully en-dowed with the beauty that nat


The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . is the love ofthe home and garden rife. It extendsto the farmer and cottager. The farm-er with pride will call your attentionto the fine oaks or maples in his hedge-rows, while the cottager will be hardpinched indeed if he does not find theopportunity to clothe the walls of hiscottage with climbing vines, or hiswindows with boxes of floweringplants. It is the love for gardening,so deeply implanted in the heart ofthe Britisher, which gives to Englandone of its greatest charms. New England is so wonderfully en-dowed with the beauty that naturehas implanted that the choice of ahome site, it might be said, need onlybe governed, by geographical considera-tions or convenience of location in itsrelation to transportation. Land, too,suitable for country estates is plenti-ful and cheap. The character of theflora is distinctly and charmingly in-teresting. Wooded hills and valleysabound while the soil is so well adapt-ed to the growth that it is easily pos-sible with good cultivation to produce. PYRUS BACCATA AT HOLM LEA, BROOKLINE, MASS. Photograph copyrighted by Thos. E. Marr igi2. The American Florist. 813


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