Show WILD HEDGE EASILY MADE indigenous plants are useful in at al soils grow if they hava chance As showing what may lie be done on a emall lawn a at t a outlay except ln in personal persona I 1 labor bestowed by tho the 0 owner w ner a few minutes at a time utter after tho the days work had bad been done tho the experience of a few years Is instructive tive ten years ago there was not a single tree or shrub on the little lawn wh which IC h had been part of an open field badly run down so BO that the crops did no not t pay for cultivation there wm no belt of timber or anywhere near and the winds had unobstructed ted sweep over tho the whole locality the soil was waa a stiff putty allo 1110 clay when wet and like ilko bricks ahrn dry in this unpromising n rent icil estate syndicate had bid built two or three houses for salo sale to rn ille purchasers one or of them had been rented for a year but the tenant fou found nd the locality so BO bleak in winter that he left at the end of the year the place was filially sold at a low price to a young man whose business was in tho the city and tie ho had only the early mornings and the evenings after six to devoto to his home lot ito iio began by digging over a border four or five feet wide widest on the tha west or windward bilde filde mixing in plenty of coal ashes of which a largo pile had been left by tho the previous occupant A swampy brush pasture in the neighborhood was visited frequently ly and young shrubs and wild plants were taken home and planted along the border without any attempt at formal or scientific arrangement in the ton ten years not moro more than 3 5 has hai been paid for shrubs mich cultivated plants as lilacs and roses being suckers which were troublesome in the gardens of city friends some of the wild plants wore obtained during visits to the country as lie ho generally returned homo home from such visits with a basket full of plants from the woods wood now after ton ten years tho the border Is u mass af pf of sh rubery and a dense foundation of wild lowering flowering and herbaceous plants so dense that the highest winds do not break tt through rough and there aro are always plenty of flowers under tinder tho the shrubs tho the plan plants ts seeming to blossom and grow as well as aa in other native woods weeds have bavo been kept out and the ground forked over every spring as far as the th herbage berbano would perm lip |