April 26, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



393 



SOBBARIA ABBOREA. 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



One who would have his grounds as attractive as 

 possible must exercise considerable discrimination in 

 Belecting his plants. Too often one yields to the 

 temptation to plant shrubs that shall present an attrac- 

 tive appearance at flowering 1 time only, whereas, if more 

 thought were given to the matter, equally fine plants 

 could be selected that would possess much beauty at 

 other times. There are always sufficient flowers when 

 the great hurst of bloom is on in May, but often there is 

 a conspicuous lack both earlier and later. By judicious 

 planting one may, however, have flowers both early and 

 late, and bright colors always. Early spring brings the 

 golden bell, corylopsis and garland flower (Daphne) 

 while siime species of dogwood and willow vie with them 



in color. In late summer there are the rose-ol'-Sharon, 

 blue sage (Caryopteris mastacantha), butterfly hush, pea 

 tree, abelia, hercules club and various others. Even 

 autumn is not without its blooming shrubs and the 

 witch hazel often flowers in November. The brightest 

 colors of this latter season, however, are given by leaves, 

 berries and bark. The bright red of barberry, high 

 bush cranberry, and hawthorn, the orange and red of 

 bittersweet, and the clear white of snowherry. are more 

 conspicuous after the leaves have fallen, but the most, 

 brilliant reds of autumn are due to the colors put on by 

 the leaves of sumach, chokeberry, barberry, and young 

 plants of the wild crab. If nurserymen were to give 

 somewhat more emphasis to the good points that shrubs 

 possess in addition to flowers, it is probable that a more 

 extensive business would result. — Amrrican Botanist. 



