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alternifolia). These shrubs produce in summer attractive white flowers, and 
the first two, by reason of the bright red color of the young branchlets, light 
up the winter landscape with a glowing red. 
The Honeysuckle family furnishes much valuable shrubbery for the prai- 
rie planter. At the head of the list is the Red-Berried Elder (Sambucus 
pubens), a rank, vigorous native, sure to please when given plenty of room 
in a rich location. The native Sheep-berry (Viburnum lentago), with its 
thick, wax-like leaves, its large flat cymes of white flowers and its dark 
purple fruit, is a most attractive shrub. The Cranberry tree (Viburnum 
opulus) may be grown with good results, as well as its garden variety, the 
common Snowball. The Snowball should be in every prairie shrubbery. 
The native smooth-leafed Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica) when transplanted 
to the shrub border and given good cultivation is sure to please. It should 
be kept tied up to a stake. The several varieties of Bush Honeysuckles are 
very valuable on the prairies. The old pink and white forms of the Tarta- 
rian Honeysuckle never disappoint the prairie planter. The varieties sent 
out by the Iowa Agricultural College as Lonicera Splendens and Lonicera 
Elegans are especially desirable. It is probable that the Splendens is the best 
all-around prairie shrub. 
The Composite family gives us the Russian Artemisia, a very hardy shrub 
and one that does well on dry, sterile banks, where little else will grow. It 
should be pruned frequently during the summer to prevent fruiting. 
With this great wealth of absolutely hardy material at hand, it is unwise 
for the average planter of the home grounds to experiment with anything of 
doubtful hardiness. Plant things that will grow without coaxing, and your 
garden and shrubberies will give you far more happiness. 
Mr. Taylor: Mr. Moyer said the barberry was a good thing 
to plant except for the reason that it causes rust in wheat. I would 
like to know whether that is true. If it is true we ought to get rid 
of it. 
Mr. Moyer: I have taken some pains to look up the matter, 
and wherever we find the barberry we find the black rust in wheat. 
The President: My brother had a field of wheat that was com- 
pletely destroyed by the rust. Within a dozen rods of that field 
was a little row of barberries. I told Dr. Lugger about the black 
rust, but I did not tell him about this particular case, and he said in 
every case it comes from the barberries. He said he went into the 
Red River Valley where he found rust in wheat, which he ascribed 
to the presence of barberries, but nobody knew anything about bar- 
berries, but afterwards he got a letter saying there were several 
lots of barberries in that vicinity. Then I told him the experience 
of my brother. He said it was always so, wherever the barberry 
exists the black rust exists. 
Mr. Jewett: In a conversation I had yesterday with Prof. Lug- 
ger he brought out those same facts. There is another matter in 
regard to the rust that should claim our attention, and that is the 
rust on the apple tree. I read a short time ago in one of our eastern 
