. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BRIDE AND BRIDESMAID MARIE VON HOUTTE PAPA GONTIER may also be placed with considerable effect, and they should be so planted, against the foundation of the house and in the corners of the drives and walks. Keep the walks and road on one—the least desirable—side of the lawn. Do not have the yard cut up in small checker-board plats by walks going everywhere, and do not have a walk run all the way around the house, where it always has to be looked at. Better put your flower bed near the brirder and not in the middle of the lawn, where it reminds one of a button sew
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BRIDE AND BRIDESMAID MARIE VON HOUTTE PAPA GONTIER may also be placed with considerable effect, and they should be so planted, against the foundation of the house and in the corners of the drives and walks. Keep the walks and road on one—the least desirable—side of the lawn. Do not have the yard cut up in small checker-board plats by walks going everywhere, and do not have a walk run all the way around the house, where it always has to be looked at. Better put your flower bed near the brirder and not in the middle of the lawn, where it reminds one of a button sewed on the knee of your trousers—out of place and no reason for it being there. Put it near the shrubbery, where it serves only to add to the decorative value of the frame which surrounds the lawn picture. Too often grading about a place is overlooked entirely. Grade down the terraces, fill the sink holes and give a gentle, undulating, rolling surface to the lawn that it may more naturally reflect the lights and shadows of the clouds which fly above it. The native elm, the sugar maple, the walnut, the linden and the oak are our best shade and street trees, while in choosing our shrubbery we should cling to the good, substantial species which have stood by us a hundred years rather than to the horticultural specimens, most of which are freaks and contortions of plant growth, and which attract our attention only through their outlandish- ness and the high prices attached to them. Why should anyone for a moment desire that upside-down flowerless speci- men called Teas' weeping mulberry, which is peddled from door to door by the "tree quack," when for half the price he can enjoy the glory and fragrance of a mock orange or that most splendid of all shrubs, Van Houtte's spiraea, some- times called bridal wreath. Don't get discouraged by trying to do everything at once. Would you have your boy become a man in a day? The love you bear him is due to the fact that he has g
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