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dry soil. It takes two years to come 

 from seed. Nursery grown plants of it 

 are hard to obtain. 



Mountain holly (Nemopanlhes Cana- 

 densis) is a large, native, handsome shrub 

 growing in damp, wet ground, which 

 bears a largecrop of handsome red fruit on 

 long stalks in August and September. In 

 cultivation, with us, it stows slowly. 

 The mountain holly is also difficult to 

 obtain from nurseries. 



The common and Canadian barberries 

 are indispensable for their handsome fruit 

 displays. Large established bushes of 

 the common barberry with their curving 

 branches loaded down with the scarlet 

 oval-shaped berries throughout the fall 

 and early winter always have a cheerful 

 and warm effect in the garden Thun- 

 berg's barberry looks bright at this time 

 of the year, and will do so throughout 

 the winter. The Cretan, Chinese and Sie- 

 bold's barberries give beautiful displays 

 of fruit in the fall; the last named has 

 handsome yellowish-red fruit, and isquite 

 hardy here. 



The snowberry (Symphoricarpus) with 

 its large, white, round berries is quite 

 conspicuous late in the season, and 

 although common and easily grown, it 

 deserves attention, and the coral berry 

 (S. vulgaris), with the branches covered 

 with the coral red fruit, look real attract- 

 ive to-day on the top of the snow. 



Most of the cotoneasters are showy in 

 fruit, but the handsomest of seven or 

 eight forms we have is C. Simmonsii. It 

 retains the foliage well into the winter, 

 and the whip like branches are studded 

 thickly with bright red berries about the 

 size of peas. In a warm, sheltered situa- 

 tion here it stands the winter well, but 

 probably in an exposed cold situation it 

 might suffer severely. 



CELASTRUS ARTICULATU3. CELASTRUS SCANDENS. 



The chokeberry (Pyrus arhutifolia) , 

 with dull red Iruit.and the variety me/an- 

 ocarpa. with jet black fruit, are quite 

 attractive. Although common native 

 shrubs, they are very desirable in pleas- 

 ure grounds and grow easily in any soil. 

 The fruit keeps in good condition until 

 the first of December. 



The high bush cranberry (Viburnum 

 opulis) is well known for its handsome, 

 hanging, red bunches of edible fruit. It 



BERBERIS THUNBERGII AT TOP. BERBERIS VULGARIS VAR. AMURENSIS BELOW. 



late summer and early fall, and the native 

 withe rod, V. cassinoides, when in good 

 condition has perhaps about as showy 

 fruit as any of the genus. When ripening 

 it assumes a rosy pink cast and later 

 turns dark blue, and is quite showy 

 throughout early fall. 



Our native climbing bittersweet {Celas- 

 trus scandens) is indispensable as a showy 

 fruited plant. We saw a fence a short 

 time since in front of a dwelling, envel- 

 oped with this vine, and the masses of 

 orange-colored pods with the scarlet inte- 

 riors looked charming and cast a cheerful 

 aspect over the surroundings. The Jap- 

 anese C. articulatus is pretty, but not as 

 showy as our native species. 



The different species of spindle tree 

 ( Euonymus) are pretty well known for 

 their showy fruits. The European and 

 American species, including the native 

 Waahoo.are most desirable in all grounds 

 where showy fruited plants are wanted, 

 and some of the Asiatic species, such as 

 E. Yeddoensis, E. angustilolius and E. 

 liungeana, are appropriate for their fruit. 



The Chinese matrimony vine is very 

 showy throughout the fall with its bright 

 scarlet, fleshy berries. 



The night shade bittersweet (Solanum 

 dulcamara) bears abundan- large, oval- 

 shaped, red berries, and although it has 

 naturalized itself abundantly throughout 

 the country, it should not be despised, for 

 it is very showy. It is claimed by some 

 to be poisonous, but for that we cannot 

 vouch. 



Most of the native hawthorns are very 

 handsome in fruit. The cockspur thorn, 

 pear thorn, large scarlet fruited thorn, are 

 exceedingly effective when covered with 

 their prominent red apples, and are orna- 

 mental in any grounds. The different 

 forms of the European hawthorn where 



retains the color well until several times 

 frozen. The nannyberry (V. lentago), 

 a common native, tall growing shrub or 

 low tree, has large cymes of oval-shaped 

 black berries, which are quite noticeable 

 and are often eaten by country people. 

 The Asiatic V. diiatatum is very hand- 

 some in fruit. It used to look handsome 

 at Dosoris, L. I., but we cannot induce it 

 to thrive with us here. V. lantana has 

 quite showy, blackish fruit throughout 



