, 1899-02-14

HIttiNdlu dJJeLlDI 10 ulScOVe beauty
in the result.
hi is no harm in your trying to
grow other more tender shrubs and
trees than those | have mentioned if
you nave money you are willing to risk
upon mining. horse racing or the cleo
ton, but let the main paintings be of
hardy varieties which are sure to sue
coed. You a easily pull them out af-
ter having proved something else more
desirable. | would not try more than
three or four varieties at once and stop
about where spireas and hydrangeas
mark tenderness.
Our state has treated us well in the
matter of furnishing climbing plants.
You are familiar with at least four of
these which succeed in Laramie. A
good annual climber is the wild bal
salm apple or wild cucumber as it Is
sometimes called ~(Echinocystis). The
seeds may be planted in the fall or ear
ly spring where the vines are wanted.
Next our native hop, the vines
of which must be cleaned away each
fall and trained up each summer. The
two perennials which stay where they
are put are the Virginia creeper and
our native Clematis. I know If nothing
finer than this Clematis (Clematis Ii
gusticifolia) with its large pauicles of
snow white flowers and its profusion of
soft plumed heads. 1t is perfectly hardy
and possesses a stability and sturdiness
most gratifying.
Pretty effects can often be produced
with other climbing or training plants
which are hard, such a. Bouncing Bet
(~Saponaria). Climbing nasturtiums
ard sweet peas. There are plants which
shrubs or flowers. which may be used
effectively. There are always spare
corners, near the porch, at the base Of
a tree, or rock or fence or clothes post
where it is not easy to keep lawn grass
looking neat. These places may be
made to look very pretty by putting in
to them good healthy roots Of horse
radish, or rhubarb, or planting this
tiles, canary grass, a bunch of suntlow-
ers or any of a score Of native plants.
THE FLOWER GARDEN.
As before indicated, | do not favor
the formal style on home grounds.
There is a tender place in my heart for
the old fashioned flower garden with
its hollyhocks and daisies, and asters,
and sweet peas, and larkspur, and gold
EN- rod and pansies, giving out a blaze
| of glory during the season. Plant low
ers in the border against shrubbery
fences or buildings. Nothing makes
| flowers look p"rettier han a rich back
ground of green. A flower garden is for
| flowers and the principal thing is to
have lots of them. Have so many and
such beautiful ones that o cannot
help feeling generous. However,
flowers are for your W personal en-
iovment and the best place for them
is in a retired portion of the yard as at
the side or back. If given a prominent
place in the front yard, a flower e
often detracts from the general effect.
Those who see it are apt to feel that
you have a very pretty flower garden
rather than be impressed with the fact
that you have a lovely home. 1t Is
hardly necessary for me to enumerate
varieties for so long as you have plen-
ty il does not matter so much what they
are. Among cultivated kinds my first
choice is the pansy. 1t grows to perfec-
ton here. Start the plants in the house
early so they will bloom from June to
November. Sweet peas, petunias, YER
benias, nasturtlums. asters, marigolds,
colendulas, everlastings, sweet alysum,
sweet mignonette, sweet williams, can
dy tuft, pinks, peoples, escholtzias,
Larkgpur, snapdraggons Il stocks can
all be made very comfortable in Lara
ME gardens.
Let me mention a few native lowers,
than which nothing would be more rare
and lovely among your blossoms. Our
mountain columbine, with which few
cultivated flowers and no cultivated
columbines can complete in loveliness,
stands first, and It is leading in the
race for our national flower. What is
earlier in the spring than our anemone'
and little white aster or ~townsendia and
what kinds are more brilliant than
some of our astragali, larkspur, gem
tians, thermopsis, pentstemous, n
evening primrose. Seven OF the ten
named give shades of blue. There are
a dozen others. OF course p~erenniais
are easier to cultivate as when one
established they come up year after
year.
To insure a happy new year, keep
the liver clear and the body vigorous
by using DeWitt's Little EARLY Risers'
the famous little pills for constipation
and liver troubles. F. H.. Eggleston'