The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-03-24

foliage OF ITAicf WAS juSf as gra6i
as it had been in me middle Of sum
mer. or at least il looked SO in con
traSt with the snow covered ground.
The only other plants which come
to my mind that hold their leaves
nearly so long are some of the pri-
vets. And surely it is a fine thing
to have green and red. as we'll as
black and white in the garden in
mid-Winter.
Some of the roses adOrn the gar
den in winter as well as in summer.
if the owner is not in too much of 4
hurry to cut them down. TIE fruit
of Rosa Rugosa the Japanese brier
rose is very ornamental. and so IS
thai Of Rosa multifiOra and Rosa
blanda Some of the climbing roses.
too, Hiawatha being an example.
produce numerous red hips" TO use
the botanical name for rose fruits.
Possibly the hawthorns are more
properly classed as trees than as
shrubs. yet many of them are not
very large when full grown and
prove a great adornment to any gar
den. The fact is that the buying
public has never come to fully real
iZe the value of the thorn of which
this country has q great number.
Both the Washington ThOrne and the
Cockspur Thorn have delightful
white flowers and great quantities
of brilliant scarlet miniture apples.
which stay on the branches until
late in the winter: the Scarlet Thorn
is another good kind with large
fruits, and we'll adapted for forming
screens. For that matter, most OF
the Thorn Apples make good screens
or hedges. especially if the owner de
sires to keep out intruders. whether
man or beast. for the barbS with
which the branches are supplied are
very strong and very sharp. The
best time 10 SET out or transplant
the hawthOrns is in the spring, when
they are much easier TO handle with
success than in the Fall.
Perhaps you know the Strawberry
bush. which is clothed with scarlet
berries in the Fall. Similar but bet
ter both as 10 foliage and fruit in the
Spindle Tree. with the botanical
name of Euonymus europeans. In
the same family is the Winged Burn
ing-bush, which is wonderfully hand
some in the Fall. not only for its red
IIulI Dul also lOl iHS VI infant ~ III
son of the foliage. These different
forms of the Euonymus are among
the most interesting shrubs one can
grow. When the fruit capsuls open
a tiny red or orange cOlored ball Is
seen suspended from minute thread
and people are often deceived at tlrst
into thinking that these fruits are
blossoms. The Burning Bush is
made dOubly interesting by the fact
that the branches are covered with Il
peculiar cOrklike bark.
In the same family is the running
from of EuOnymus often called the
evergreen bitter-sWeet, which keeps
its leaves all winter and can be USED
to grow on walls of stone and brick
liks ivy. When well established 1t,
too has orange-red fruits and in the
catalogues you will find it listed as
Euonymus radicans vOgetuS.
Finally there are the barbaffleS'
among the most useful of all SHRUBS
for winter decorations. because OF
their bright red berries produced IN
the most free-handcd manner and re-
tanned all winter. Unfortunately the
common barberry and the purple bar
berry must be excluded, as they are
charged with harbOring wheat rust.
No such complaint has been made
against the Japanese barberry, how
ever, fact for which we should be
grateful, for no shrub is more gener-
ally useful for making hedges, for
planting around the house or Tor
bordering walks, shrub that is de-
pendable and beautiful in, summer
and winter alike.