. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. EVERGREEN SHRUBS 41 June we have album elegans, a large white; Mrs. G. S. Sargen
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. EVERGREEN SHRUBS 41 June we have album elegans, a large white; Mrs. G. S. Sargent, a pink; caractacus, a red; purpureum, a purple; and Lady Grey Egerton, a silvery gray lavender. There are a number of Azaleas which are most brilliant, the best being Azalea ponitca and A mollis, in the various colors, and Azalea amoena which is a superb claret pink. A shrub which has proven perfectly hardy is the Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata, var. microphylla); it grows about four feet tall and is. A garden scene in Summer. In this bosky dingle are shrubs of many kinds and tall umbrageous trees. The Yuccas are grouped for the season only, likewise the Bananas. Filamentosa is the hardiest of the Yuccas excellent. The American Holly is hard to transplant, but seems hardy as far north as Cape Cod. The leaves should be removed emd plants transplaiited in the Spring. The Mountain Lam-el (Kahnia latifoha), which has been proposed as the national flower of the United States, is, perhaps, the best evergreen shrub grown; it succeeds a little easier than Rhododendrons and without protection of the tops retains a good ap- peeirance all through the Winter. The Mahonia, or Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifoUum), is an exceUent shrub; it succeeds perfectly if planted so that leaves are shaded from Winter sun. It surely looks fresh, green and glossy in Midwinter. Grounp Cover and Low Growing Shrubs. Oftentimes one wishes a ground cover of very low shrubbery in the shade, and few plants are as v
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