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SHRUBS THAT DO
DOUBLE DUTY
Make The Garden Delightful In Sum-
mer With Dainty Flowers And
Again I'm Winter With Brilliant
Berries.

Why plant shrubs only for sum!
mer? Perhaps the thought never
came To you. but it is quite possible
10 have the home grounds cheerful
and cay even though q blanket of
snow may cover the lawn and the
flower beds. That is one of the ad-
vantages which shrubs have over all
other plants. If YOU make the prop
CT selection, il is easy 10 have color
III the garden all the year through.
One way to do this is to include some
evergreen shrubs like retinosporas,
yews and rhododendrons; but an
other way is to choose shrubs which
have attractive fruits following the
flowers.
1t isn't always that shrubs produc-
ing brilliant berries can also boast
snowy flowers, but a few kinds can
be included for their fruits alone,
prominent among them being the
chokeberry (Aronia Or Pyrus arbuti-
folia). the cOral-berry or. as you
may call il. the Indian Currant, and
the black alder tIleX verticillata)
the common name of which some
times misleads people, because the
Dtl Hes tllC llOt biSlI N buI VI y >N'
These shrubs while not at all new
are no planted freely as they de-
serve for they are extremely Orna-
mental in the early winter.
\ delightful cousin of the coral
berry is the SnOwberry, which makes
a handsome appearance in late Fail
when scattered through the shrub
border. Probably you know it we'll,
for it has been q favorite in farm
house gardens for many years. The
flowers are small but dainty. and the
fruits almost as large as grapes, are
as white as the snow from when
they take their name. These white
berries make charming decorations
when cut in sprays and taken INTO
the house.
For Il real double-purpOse snrup
there is nothing to beat the high
bush cranberry, which is re a,iy
species of viburnum. 1t is & close
relative of the common snCvball
but the fiOWerheads are not round
but fiat and often four inches across.
The flowers come in June or earlier.
and by the end of July the fruits
which follow begin to turn red, con-
tinuing to color up until they are
startlingly brilliant and remaining in
good condition until Spring.
There are several other good vi
burnums which might we'll have a
place in our list but the witherod or
Viburnum cassinoides, is particular
ly worth growing because Of its
unique fruitin@ habits. The berries
are green, of course, in the begin
ming, but presently turn pink and
finally change to light blue. Some
times green, pink and blue berries
may be found on the same plant,
producing an effect that is as delight
full as it Is unusual. The plant also
has fiat flower heads about three
inches across, and is good native
American, another recommendation.
Blue fruited shrubs are not COM
mon, for which reason l may be JUST
fed in mentioning SymplOcos cratae-
goides although it does not hold it's
fruit very late, partly from habit
and partly because the birds devour
it with great gusto. Probably TINS
shrub would be more popular if it'll
had an easier name, but its amethyst
blue berries are very lovely and it
grows well among other shrubs.
Callicarpa purpurea is another and
better-known plant with attractive
purple berries.
Curiously enough many people
think of honeysuckles only as climb
ing vines, but there also are many
bush honeysuckles, including two or
three which are splendid double pur-
pose shrubs. The Tartarian honey
-SfTcfEF which is the most COMMON,
carries an abundance of fragrant
flowers in the spring, and big crop
of bright red fruit in the fall. Even
better perhaps is the species listed
in your catalogue as Lonicera Nor
rowi which flowers and fruits in
much the same way. but makes a
rather more symmetrical and hand
some bush. Most of the hOneysuckl-
es need plenty of room and pretty
rich ground to succeed well, and yet
Morrow can be handled very salts
factorily as hedge, although not to-
be planted as thickly as privet or
bar berry. There are a number Of
honeysuckles not in comm erce which
will delight the public in a few years
from now.
There is one other good point
about all the honeysuckles which /
must not overlook Their leaves are
very persistent, remaining on the
branches later than those of almost
any other shrub which is not truly
evergreen in he North. Last
Christmas l saw hOneysuckles in the
Arnold Arboretum near Boston, the