For January, 1923 



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sible for the length of time we are able to 

 enjoy the many ornamental fruits in the 

 garden. In some seasons when there 

 IS a shortage of food, possibly the ground 

 frozen, the blackbirds and thrusts soon 

 raid the bushes. Nor do we grudge 

 our feathered friends their daily food. It is 

 dehghtful to have them with us in the gar- 

 den, and most interesting to watch them 

 from day to day, always ijicUing out tlie 

 ripest fruits, commencing usually with the 

 Mountain Ash ( Pyrus .\ucuparia). Fruits 

 which ripen late they lca\e until last. Timid 

 by nature, the birds seldom venture to feed 

 on the berries growin.g on trees and shrubs 

 in much-frequented places. This is why the 

 masses of fruits remain so long conspic- 

 uously beautiful growing against suburban 

 houses, while away in the shrubbery borders 

 the bushes are already alive with blackbirds 

 and thrushes feasting on the fruits. In some 

 seasons our Holly bushes are almost cleared 

 of berries if we get a sharp spell of frost be- 

 fore Christmas. 



Again, the birds are only copying human 

 beings in their partialty for certain fruits. 

 The ground may be covered beneath a tree 

 with plenty of dead-ripe fruits, but another 

 kind on a neighbouring tree is evidently 

 more tasty, judging by the efforts of the 

 birds swinging at the ends of the twigs. 



Three Cratsguses stand out from all the 

 rest as late-fruiting kinds, the fact that they 

 are correspondingly late in flowering giving 

 them an additional value, Crataegus cordata 

 ( the \\'ashington Thorn ) carries its clusters 

 of rather small orange scarlet berries to 

 Christmas, or later if untouched by birds. 

 C. Carrierei is one of the handsomest of the 

 family in flower and fruit. ,At present the 

 bronze, crimson and gold foliage is con- 

 spicuous in the autumn sun with large fruits 

 which often hang on the trees until February 

 or March. C. stipulosa (C. mexicana of the 

 Botanical Register) retains the fruits and 

 much of the foliage until late in the year 

 and sometimes into January. The fruits 

 are yellowish green. It is worthy of note 

 that, though a native of Mexico, it is hardy 

 in this country. 



Cotoneasters are represented by two spe- 

 cies in particular which are conspicuous ai 

 Christmastide and aftor, and to which birds 

 do not appear partial. C. rotundifolia is a 

 semi-evergreen often carrying its foliage and 

 rich scarlet-red fruits until March. It forms 

 a spreading bush 6 feet to 8 feet or more 

 in height. Even better known is C. frigida. 

 remarkable alike for its wealth of red berries 

 and the length of time they retain their 

 beauty. Usually seen as a large wide- 

 spreading bush, this Cotoneaster can be 

 trained into a tree with a good thick-set 

 trunk. The fruits often provide a remark- 

 able contrast to the new soft green foliage 

 in spring. 



Several Barberries deserve attention as 

 fruiting bushes in midwinter. Two of the 

 most constant in the production of berries 

 are Barberries subcaulialata and B. Stapi'iana. 

 Both are Chinese species, forming wide- 

 spreading bushes, some 3 feet or more in 

 height with gracefully arching branches laden 

 with carmine-red fruits. The berries of B. sub- 

 caulialata are brighter in color and have less 

 ■'bloom" on them than those of B. Stapfiana. 



A shrub or small tree which the birds ap- 

 pear to leave severely alone is the Sea Buck- 

 thorn (Hippophae rhamnoides). It has 

 clusters of orange berries lasting in beauty 

 from autumn until February or March. Non- 

 success with this valuable seaside or water- 

 side plant is usually traceable to the fact 

 that only one sex is grown. Male and fe- 

 male flowers are borne on separate trees, 

 and both must be grown fairly close to- 

 gether to obtain fruits. 



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 crystal gardens so located that one could look right out the window 

 and see the flowers abloom in its perpetual summerland, regardless of 

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Straightway after reading it. I sent for your catalog, and looking 

 through it slowly, leaf by leaf, lingered at the one on Page 27. Turning 

 to the window. I looked out and saw it in my mind's eye, just as it 

 would look. 



After which you know what happened. 



Looking up from my writing this, the yard is piled with snow drifts 

 and the wmd is howling like a hungry wolf, but it is perpetual summer 

 m the bloom filled greenhouses. They are filled with flowers and I am 

 filled with the joy of their possession. " 



That s what this contentment filled owner of two of our houses recently 

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