Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . Lilac Marie Flowering Elder and Path from Gakdem to {See page < FEBRUARY 23 wood from Viburnum plicatwn. The stuff cut outmakes quite a respectable lot of faggoting. Howextremely dense and hard is the wood of PhUadel-phus! as close-grained as Box, and almost as hardas the bright yellow wood of Berberis, Some of the Lilacs have a good many suckers fromthe root, as well as on the lower part of the must all come away, and then the trees willhave a good dressing of manure. They are g
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . Lilac Marie Flowering Elder and Path from Gakdem to {See page < FEBRUARY 23 wood from Viburnum plicatwn. The stuff cut outmakes quite a respectable lot of faggoting. Howextremely dense and hard is the wood of PhUadel-phus! as close-grained as Box, and almost as hardas the bright yellow wood of Berberis, Some of the Lilacs have a good many suckers fromthe root, as well as on the lower part of the must all come away, and then the trees willhave a good dressing of manure. They are greedyfeeders, and want it badly in our light soil, and surelyno flowering shrub more truly deserves it. The LilacsI have are some of the beautiful kinds raised inFrance, for which we can never be thankful enoughto our good neighbours across the Channel. Thewhite variety, Marie Legraye, always remains myfavourite. Some are larger and whiter, and havethe trusses more evenly and closely filled, but thisbeautiful Marie fills one with a satisfying convictionas of something that is just right, that has arr
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