For the landscape shrubs must be all hardy and able to withstand the withering heat and icy winters of our climate. Moreover, they thrive with a minimum of care, if they have been properly planted and in the location which suits their requirements. In planting a shrub, a bole is dug at least a foot deeper and wider than required, and this is filled for eight inches with well rotted manure or compost and then covered for the remaining four with top soil. The shrub is placed in the hole, and all around the roots fine top soil is placed. The soil is then pounded down and watered and the water allowed to soak in. A day or so later, where the soil has sunk, top soil is filled to a little higher than the level of the soil to allow for further settling. It is of course necessary to cultivate the shrubs at least twice a year, and preferably oftener, and to feed them with a winter mulch composed either of well rotted manure, well rotted leaves or of a layer of decomposed compost. A winter spray of lime sulphur will keep down same and an occasional summer spray will be required against the aphids.

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