Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-19
DEaIcHHuL GARDENS IN SUMMER AND WINTER

Why plant shrubs only for summer? 1 Perhaps the thought never came to you. but it is quite possible to have the home grounds cheerful and gay, even though a blanket of snow may cover the lawn and the flower bedG writes Edward ". Far rinzfon. That Is one of the advantages which shruhs lave over all other plants.
 If you make the proper selection. 1t is easy to have color in the garden all the
 year through. One way to do this Is to include some evergreen shrubs like re- ttnoHporass yews and rhedodendrons but another and cheaper way Is to choose shrubs which have attractive fruits fol- lowing the flowers
 1t isn't always that shrubs producina
 brilliant berries can also boast sliowJ flowers, but few kinds can be incitid-
 ed for their fruits alone, prominent among them being the choke-beery (aroqiia Of pyrus arbutifolia), the coral-berry, or
 as you may call 1t, the Indian currant. and tho black alder (Ilsx verticillata1
 the conn1on name of which sometimes
 misleads people, because the berries are not black but very red. These shrubs while not at all new arS not planted as freely as they deserve. for they are. ex- tregnely ornamental in the early winter. A dlightful cousin of the coral berry is the snowberry, which makes a hand
 some appearance in late fall when scat
 tered through the shrub border. Prob ! ably you know it well, for 1t has been a
 favorite in farmhouse gardens for many
 years. The ffowers are small but dainty, and the fruits, almost as large as grapes are as white as the snow from which they take their name. TfieGe white Der. , ries make charming dscos ations when ; cut in snrays and taken intU the. house. For a real double-purnose shrub there is nothing to beat the highbush cran [ berry, which Is really species of Vi burnum. It Is close relative of tn,
 common snowball. but the fowerhead are not round but fiat and often foui f inches across. The flowers come fl June or earlier and by the end of July tn , fruits which follow begin to turn red Q dlntinuing to color up until they ar : startfingly brilliant and remaining 6 good condition until spring.
 There are several other good vfburnum |. which might well have 8 place in ou !, list, but the witherod or vihurnum cas f sinoides, is particularly worth growth s = because of its unique ffuiting habits. ri = berries are green. of course. in the bt = ginning, but presently turn pink and fir :, ally change to light blue. Sometime a green, pink and blue berries may | = found on the same plant, producing a ,r effect that Is as delightful as 1t Is unui r ual. The plant also has fiat flower heat :. about three sches across, and is goo native American, another recommend, ', tion.
 ,a .a Blue fruited shrubs are not commio ~ for which reason I may be justified . mentioning symplocos crataegoides, 4 ao, though 1t does not hold It's fruit vel d late, partly from habit and partly b s cause the birds deNour it with great gu - to. Probably this shrub would be mo ,d popular if it had an easier name, but 1 o- amethyst-blue berries are very lovely al
 1t grows well among other shrubs. Cal
 carpa purpurea Is another and bette
 known plant with an attractive purI E. berries.
 1 Curiously enough many people tfi O. of heneysuckles only as climbing win, IT, but there also are many bush hone he suckles including twto or three which 6 to splendid double purpose shrubs. T
 a Tartarian honeysuckle, which is the mt ie- common carries an abundance of fl le- grant flowers in tht spring. and a 1 is crop of bright red fruit in the fall Ev i'd better perhaps Is the species listed in. your catalogue as Lonicera morro
 is which flowers and fruits in much { ny same way. but makes a rather m, re- symmetrical and handsome bush. M Till of the honey kles need plenty of ro rly and pretty rich ground to succeed " he and yet Morr0wi can be handled VI