. 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. Ungainly and displeasing. The grass is unkempt; the shrubs in front are wild gro
. 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. Ungainly and displeasing. The grass is unkempt; the shrubs in front are wild growths that have sprung up of their own accord, yet the situation is ideal for gardening Low hedges of the graceful Ligustrum Regehanum (Kegel's Privet) are very hand- some; or Berberis Thunbergii, with its red berries and Fall coloring; or the Jap- anese Quince, which must not be trimmed too closely if it is to appear pretty, with its deep red or pink flowers; or the Sibe- rian Dogwood (Cor- nus alba sibirica). For an evergreen hedge, nothing has been used more than Box. This is not hardy in all peirts of the North, and is a very slow grower. It is almost the only plant to use except the Dwarf Japeihese Yew (Taxus cuspidata v£ir. brevifolia). It is very hardy and has hardly become known as yet in American gardens. Ilex crenata microphyUa and Euonymus radicans cein also be used. Taller hedges are best made of the Ibota (Ligustrum Ibota) and common Privet (Ligustrum vulgare). The California Privet (Ligus- trum ovaUfolium) should not be planted in the Northern States; it freezes down too frequently so that it never attains any character. The. Golden Privet is very bright and cheery, but hard to buy. The Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) is a useful and not easily penetrable hedge. Hedges of Hemlock, Arborvitae and Norway Spruce are substantial when the taller ones are wanted. The Hemlock is the finest, sinc^ each plant merges into the next admirably. A common blun- der with hedges is
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