SOME NATIVE SHRUBS AND THEIR USES. 



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even in the winter, adds a touch of color to the landscape with its 

 abundant crop of rose-hips and its red twigs. 



Another shrub for winter effect is the Red-Twigged Dog- 

 wood, found in low and moist places, also helping considerably to 

 brighten up the sombre aspect of our tamarack swamps in the 

 winter time. It adapts itself to any kind of soil if not too dry 

 and is often used for hedges, but there 

 is other material better adapted to this 

 purpose. It is valuable in shrubbery 

 planting and blooms most all summer. 

 Before the last of the flowers have dis- 

 appeared, the white berries already add 

 to its decorativeness. 



Almost identical, but of a more up- 

 right growth, is Bailey's Dogwood. 



More stately and bold in appearance, 

 and of a very distinct habit, is the Alter- 

 nate Leaved Dogwood. Its branches are 

 arranged in irregular whorls, forming 

 flat, horizontally-spreading tiers, espe- 

 cially noticeable in winter time. It is 

 equally attractive, with its white blos- 

 soms and, later on, with its metallic blue 

 berries. 



A lower grower, and already, for this 

 particular reason, a valuable shrub, is 

 the Panicled, or Gray, Dogwood, a well 

 shaped shrub, with good, healthy foli- 

 age. It thrives in both sunny and shady 

 positions, is a prolific bloomer and fruit 

 bearer, and its white or bluish-white 

 berries are borne on red stems, form- 

 ing a rather pretty contrast. 



Further, we have the Silky Dogwood, , 

 with purple branches and dark blue ber- age a wo » clerfull y i ,rollfic bearer - 

 ries, and the Round, or Big Leaved, Dogwood, with light blue- 

 berries on light purplish, brown spotted twigs. 



The family of the Viburnums furnishes us with a consider- 

 able number of fine shrubs, as, for instance, the well-known High- 

 bush Cranberry, with its pretty white flowers, its brilliant red 

 fruit and its gorgeous fall coloring. 



