. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 110 DWYER'S GUIDE. THE HARDY BORDER. There is perhaps nothing so beautiful and valuable in the landscape and nothing so easily and cheaply obtained as a border of ornamental' shrubs. Be your place large or small, there is always an opportunity to enrich and beautify the grounds with the judicious selection of these grateful and beautiful flowering plants. A border of this kind once planted and established lasts for nearly a life time. Comparatively speal^ing, the first cost is the only cost and the little necessary pruning of these shrub
. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 110 DWYER'S GUIDE. THE HARDY BORDER. There is perhaps nothing so beautiful and valuable in the landscape and nothing so easily and cheaply obtained as a border of ornamental' shrubs. Be your place large or small, there is always an opportunity to enrich and beautify the grounds with the judicious selection of these grateful and beautiful flowering plants. A border of this kind once planted and established lasts for nearly a life time. Comparatively speal^ing, the first cost is the only cost and the little necessary pruning of these shrubs each year is easily and cheaply accomplished; in fact, it is a great pleasure to those who love nature to attend to and supply the little wants of these generous shrubs. The author has several hardy b o r ders of flowering shrubs at his own home and perhaps gets more pleasure, satisfaction and real value from their pro- duct than from anything else in the ornamental line. There is not a sin- gle day in the season from early April until Novem- ber when it is not possi- ble, for his wife or chil- dren to cut beautiful flowers and foliage from these borders. The prin- cipal border was planted fourteen years ago along in front of his place on the public highway. It seems more beautiful and the plants more grateful each succeeding year. This border is some three hundred feet in length and is planted with fl o w e r in g shrubs that bloom continuously throughout the entire sea- son. During the growing season it is the admira- tion of all his friends, and favorable comments can be heard most any day from the passers-by. The labor and care of keeping this border in proper con- dition costs less than ten dollars per year, perhaps for the ordinary home it would not be necessary to have as long a planting as this, but even though the planting be reduced fully one-half. HYDRANGEA P. G., GROWN AS A Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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