Show home town all P s WILD HEDGE EASILY MADE indigenous plant plants are useful in all soils grow if they have chance at bowing what aty bo be done on a small lawn laun at a minimum outlay ex capt in personal labor bestowed by the ovi owner ner a it few minutes nt at a time after the d alye ty a work mork had been beef done the experience of a it few years is in tise ten years ngo thero there as a not a single tree or shrub on the little lan lawn which had been part of an open field badly run do don n so that the crops did not pay for or cultivation thue thle A abs lit no belt of timber or any where near and the winds had junob strutted ted sa sweep beep oi over er the whole w hole locality the toll soil was a stiff putty like clay when wet et and like bricks when dry in this unpromising situation a real estate syndicate bad hid built two or three houses for sale to possible one of them had been rented r anted for a year but the tenant found the locality so bleak in winter that he left at the end of the ear the place was finally sold at a low rice to a young man whose business was in the city and he had only the early morning mornings and the evenings after six clock to devote to his home lot iol lie began by digging over a border four or five feet wide widest on the west or windward aide side mixing in plenty of coal ashes of which a large pile had been left by the previous a c cupani A swamp brush pasture in the neighborhood was as visited fro quent ly and youir hruba shrubs and wild ild planta plants were taken home and planted along the 1 border without any attempt at formal or scientific arrangement in the ten years yc irs not more than 5 has been paid for shrubs such cultivated plants as III lilies acs ics and roses being suck ere era which were becoming troublesome in the gardens of city friends some of the wild lid plants were obtained dur ing visits to the country at a he generally returned home from such visits with a it basket full of plants from the woods now after ten ears cars the border la Is a mass of sh rubery and a dense denso foundation of wild fic flowering luering and herbaceous plants so dense that the hight st winds do not bre ik through and alere ari arp always plenty of flowers under the shrubs the plants seeming to blo blos esoni solm and grow as well as n other nativo woods acda have been kept out and the ground foiled over evera ihring as far as tho herbage would permit A FAMOUS WATER GARDEN village built in 1570 by court Argul isola soola of piacenza described by pliny in a lew few instances suburban garden era have utilized the historic well imported from italy as fountain ba sins bins but they are more moro when simply set near a fountain whenever possible they aro ate ampro pr fately placed near a lake or a cas cade of water ater and the wells as well as the fountains the lakes and find tho the running water all produce the effect i of coolens cool ns s and refreshing that la Is ito important in laying out the gardens of sunny italy probably the most famous Is tie water garden girden of the villa built in 1570 by the count laiola of ot alicena Pl icena and since the property of the trotti fim rm lly fly of milan dillan the place take takes its rame from an intermittent spring in the court Is sul I 1 oed to be the one described by pliny in one of his hi letters and it Is further celebrated as being the coolest villa ilia of como ably ome owner of an extensive country estate will somo some day lay endeavor to lay out bla his grounds on the same splendid water acala with all the accompaniments of carved welle wells and fo fountain 1 weer flooded cliffs and cascades but so tar far only portions of this famous garden have been reproduced bere ou oti many of the suburban estates that delight in italian garden features the well nell curbs are splendidly caned reproductions of celebrated typed but the original well ell curbs in ancient form and thronging with alth historic assoil i eions have the preference in the in mi ini i bority of instances these quaint old fifteenth century tyres ara of spa clous cious dimensions and they evidently provided abundant in their original quarters lu lit ble blat torio orlo italian villas queer beat beast the porcupine mother nature surely must have set out to make something different dit Terent the day the invented the porcupine here Is an ahlm animal al with a pathetically mild disposition without cunning or courage and almost tie as blow and clumsy as a turtle it would have haio been absurd to give him capons cof offense he lie would mould never neier have the energy to attack anything so ho he was given n coat of mall mail in which ho he might walk alk abroad among hia his enemies and yet be as safe as though he were behind a vail mail of steel hia ilia upper parts from bis his nose to the tip ot of bis his thick moscu lar tall tali are covered with a mass of sharp pointed quill intermixed with coarse hair each quill la Is provided with fill a number of minute barba pointing backa backward ird to that when it ie to once ing inserted ered in n the flesh of any ani ant mal the mere movement of the will cause it to work deeper and deeper suburban life J J al |