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shoots however die far down ; it is said lo blossoni usnally bul 

 seldom bears ripe fruit. The red-berried elder is also frequenlly 

 planled and thrives fairly well. Hawthorn bushes grow fairly large 

 under the shelter of stone dikes. We frequenlly find also various 

 Ribes species (R. alpinum, sangiiineiini, aureiim) which grow ex- 

 cellenlly, as also Ihe red-curranl and gooseberry, bolh of which do 

 well and oflen assume considerable dimensions, as e. g. Ihe well- 



Fig. 200. Gooseberrj' bushes at Elvcvejen in Thorshavn. (K. B. phot. 



known gooseberry bushes at Elvevejen in Thorshavn. The red 

 curranl ripens as a rule, though Ihis does not happen every year 

 with the gooseberry. The black currant is seldom planted, bul 

 may somelimes ripen. Further, of garden shrubs more or less 

 commonly planted, we find laburnum, snowberry, Weigelia, barbary 

 with buge leaves and almost wilhout tliorns, Riihiis spectabilis and 

 Spiræa sorbifolia and olher species, Rosa riigosa and olher species 

 etc. — all thriving fairly well wherever the conditions are in any 

 way favourable. Several of these bushes often flower very richly 

 but scarcely every year for all of them. The well-known observa- 

 tion that trees and bushes after a specially sunny summer blossom 

 the more abundantly in Ihe following year has been proved by 

 experience to hold good also in the Færoes, and one may thus see 



