Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-12-27
WINTER LANDSCAPE
Varied Bright Berried Shrubs For
the Home Grounds.
BEAUTY AND CHEERFULNESS.
They Are inexpensive and Decorate a
Season When Other Plants Are
Bare-Shrubs With Brilliant Bark
Are Also Available.

| season when other Plants Are
Bare-Shrubs With Brilliant Bark
Are Also Available.
There Is no reason why our home
grounds should be deSolate looking
Gve-twelfthS of each year." Il nursery
man whose speciality is landscape gar
dening told II reporter "Brrried shrubs
that cost less than half u dollar apiece
year after planting are all that is need
ed.
There are twentythree or twenty
four kinds Of SHRUBS with bright col
ored bark or berries which if planted
in the home grounds would transform
the average garden in the north from
drearinesS and mOnotony into ever
changing scenes Of beauty and cheer
fitness. None of them is slow grow
ing. costly or short lived in this eli
| mate.
"Ncsgo south in the winter and ex-
claim over the fact that we see green
thin $ in the home grounds We sell
dom consider long enough to realize
that they are evergreens, and. although
riost of the broad leaved varieties are
not to be had in the climate of the
northern states. there are many other
shrubs j. t as beautiful that we
might have If we took the trouble to
plant them. From now until the
ground freezes this planting can be
done with success. though it is best to
get them in so that the earth will
have Il little time to settle about the
roots before real winter begins
About the best known of these ber-
ried shrubs is the snowberry. and it
is about the least attractive of them
all. 1t is grown exclusively for it's
white glistening berries. because its
flowers are insignificant and its foliage
embarrassing. The berries. though
beautiful ana usually abundant, often
lose their freshness and become an
unsightly brown in February and
March,
THE four next best known berried
shrubs are, in my opinion, the best for
planting in the home grounds for the
sake of Identifying them during the
cold months. They are the japanese
barberry, the common or American
barberry, the high bush cranberry and
the Rosa multifora. OF the four the
japanese barberry is my favorite
Don't let any one persuade you to
plant Rosa rugosa for it's winter ber-
ic u,1 10 f,.t1n hnt tie, frr,i ;c,
as bright colored rs that of the multi
fora. but the berries are coarse in COM
parison and become unsightly soon aft
er the first severe spell of cold wealth
err | never expect mine to look we'll
after Christmas
THE multifora berries are not so
large us those of the high bush cram
berry. but considerably larger than c-
Their variety Of the barberry. They
crow in large clusters. Il brilliant red
anA extremely beautiful in the winter.
especially with Il snow background or
amid gliStenng sleet. The plant is Il
strong grower and is commonly rated
as Il climber. Its single white bios
SONS come in June and are produced
in large clusters.
ut is not troubled with garden in
sccts nearly so much as other varie
ties of garden roses and is long lived
and well adapted to the climate of the
northern states. 1t is one OF the par
ents of the crimson rambler. and to
me its berries look as beautiful in the
winter as the blossoms of the rambler
do in the spring and summer | con-
slider it next in Importance to the bar
berries for cheering up the home
grounds in the winter. The plants are
slightly more expensive than those Of
the common barberry. though cheap
enough to be within the reach Of any
owner Of a home.
THE high bush cranberry has the
largest winter red berry among the or
for Il small amount Of money. The
shrub usually grows as tall as man.
though under good conditions l have
seen it attain more than ten feet
at is the single lowered form of the
old fashioned SNOWFALL and bears it.
fruit in pendent punches Of from four
to about one dozen berries each. The
fruit shrives to some extent during
the winter. but even at that 1t will
measure three-eighths Of an inch in
March. 1t is II good shrub for winter
ornamentation. and both the blossoms
and the leaves make it worth while in
even a small garden during the spring