Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-12-30
WINTER LANDSCAPES
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.
"There is no reason why our home
grounds should be desolate looking
tive-twelfths of each year." Il nursery
man whose speciality is landscape gar
dening told q reporter. "Berried shrubs
that cost less than half a dollar apiece
and will give Il fair show the second
year after planting are all that is need
ed.
There are twenty-three or twenty
four kinds of shrubs with bright col
ored bark or berries which if planted
in h home grounds would transform
the average garden in the north from
dreariness and monotony into ever
changing scenes of beauty and cheer
fulness. None of them is slow grow
ing. costly OF short lived in this eli
mate.
1--WE go south in the winter and ex-
claim owe the fact that we see green
things in the home grounds. We sell
dom consider long enough to realize
that they are evergreens, and, although
most of the broad leayed varieties are
not to be had in the climate of the
northern states, there are many other
shrubs just 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 a 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 g%listening berries. because it's
flowers are insignificant and it's foliage
embarrassing. The berries. though
beautiful and 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 multilora. OF the four the
Japanese barberry is my favorite.
o let any II persuade you to
plant Rosa rugosa for it's winter ber-
ries. 1t is quite true that it's fruit is
as bright colored as that of the multi
flora. but the berries are coarse in COM
parison and become unsightly oon aft
er the first severe spell of cold wealth
er. l eve expect mine to look We'll
after Christmas.
1.-The multitlora berries are not so
large as those of the high bush cram
berry, but considerably larger than Ell
Their variety of the barberry. They
grow in large clusters. Il brilliant red
and extremely beautiful in the winter.
especially with Il snow background or
amid glistening sleet. The plant is Il
strong grower and is commonly rated
as a climber. Its single white bios
SONS come in June and are produced
in large clusters.
"It is not troubled with garden in
sects nearly so much as other varie-
ties of garden roses and is long lived
and we'll 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. l 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 burberry. though cheap
enough to be within the reach of any
owner Of a home.
1.-THE high bush cranberry has the
largest winter red berry among the or
namental shrubs that are to be had
for a small amount Of money. The
shrub usually grows as tall as a man.
though under good conditions l have
seen it attain more than ten feet.
at is the single Powered form of the
old fashioned SNOWFALL and bears it's
fruit in pendent punches of from four
to about one dozen berries each. The
fruit shrivels to some extent during
the winter. but eve at that it will
measure three-eighths Of an inch in
March. 1t is a good shrub for winter
ornamentation. and both the blossoms
and the leaves make it worth while in
even a small garden during the spring
and summer.
among the small trees that give us
red berries during the winter the
mountain ash is perhaps the best. be-
cause, besides the beauty Of it's fruit,
which grows in large clusters. it has
ornamental foliage and is entirely har-
dy in the northern climate. Cockspur
ranks next to the mountain ash and
is worthy of all the praise usually
given it in n~urserymen's catalogues
for Frightening our winter landscapes.
Besides bright berried shrubs, there
are those which have brilliantly color
ed bark during the cold months. The
COrnuS alba has q brilliant scarlet