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Shrubs Which Add To The
Joy OF Living

Shrubs make a bigger show with
! less expense and labor than any
| thing else which can be planted on a
! suburban lot, or for that matter, in
! the country farm yard. They may
! seem TO cost a little more at the
! beginning than perennial and annual
! flowers, but their long lives and the
| fact that a few of them fill a large
j amount of space make them really
very inexpensive. Moreover there
is no kind of plant which gives the
home grounds such a tidy, livable
appearance, and when one wants to
mark a boundry line OF shut off the
house from the dusty street, or hide
an unpleasant view, shrubs if prop
erly chosen fill the bill better than
anything else that can be bought.
While the list of good shrubs to
be found in every nurserymans cata-
logue is Il long one, it isn't necessary
to have more than dozen or so to
make remarkably good showing;
and what is more, with a little care
you can choose shrubs which will
keep your garden or lawn bright
with color all the year round. This
simply means selecting such kinds as
bloom at different times in the sum-
mer and supplementing them with
others that have richly colored bark
in winter or highly colored berries
lasting until spring.
If l were to make a list of a doz.
most adaptable shrubs for the aver
age garden it would be as follows,
although there might be occasional
changes to meet conditions in diff
ferent parts of the country
Golden Bell (Forsythia inter-
media).
Weigela Eva Rathke.
Mock Orange or Syringa.
Bush Honeysuckle.
Japanese Ounce.
Lilacs.
Deurzia Pride of Rochester.
Spiraea Van Houttei.
Japanese Brier Rose (Rosa Rug
osa).
Hydrangea paniculata grandi-
flora.
Siberian Dogwood.
japanese Barberry.
Here is a list of shrubs which will
give you flowers from early spring,
for the Forsythia is one of the first
to bloom, and carries you right
through the summer with an unbrok-
en- succession of flowers. Then
throughout the fall and winter you
will have the glowing berries OF the
japanese barberry, and the warm
color of the Dogwood branches to re-
lieve the baroness and gloom of the
winter months.
Most of these shrubs are old fash
i-
son why the modern varieties should
not be enjoyed. Among the lilacs
for example, there are innumerable
new kinds which are larger and
handsomer than the 'Laylock" OF
our grandmother's day, and the
colors run all the way from pure
white to a red so deep that it is al
most black. LilacS are among the
most enduring plants which can be
set out. 1t is believed that those
still blossoming every year at Mt.
Vernon are the very plants which
Washington himself brought over
from England
It is the same with the Mock
Jfan ges. There are new kinds list
ed in almost every catalogue, which
have flowers twice as large as the old
fashioned sorts. 1t must be admit
ed. though, that these big kinds
usually lack he fragrance of the
smaller Powered Syringas, so that it
is well to have both types in your
garden, one for size and one for per-
fume. Avalanche, Bouquet Blanc
and Virginal are among the best OF
the new varieties.
While Rosa Rugosa is better
known than any of its hybirds, there
are one or two shrubby roses that
YOU might substitute if you wished
something a little finer than any
thing to be found on your neighbor,s
grounds. The rose Conrad Ferdln-
and Meyer, for example which grows
gerry much like the common Japan
ese Brier, is very much handsomerI
when in bloom. In fact, its enor-
nous blossoms are revelations OF
beauty to those who see them for the
first time. Sir Thomas Upton is al
most as fine.
- A universal favorite in suburban
communities everywhere has the
mouth filling name of Hydrangea
peniculata graniflora. it's fine plant
and one which will stand almost any
kind of rough treatment, or even
abuse.
When Dogwoods are mentioned
probably you think only of the flow
ering kind for the red twigged va
rieties are less well known. Yet
these dwarf shrubs are most deslTa-