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spicuous from September on through February; single, 

 bright pink flowers in June and July. 

 2 — Viburnum cassinoides: withered or Appalachian tea; six to 

 eight feet high; upright growing, with brownish gray 

 branches; bears dense clusters of berries that are pink, 

 changing to deep blue, all gradations appearing at once, 

 in one cluster; small white flowers in dense heads, in June 



and Jtily. 

 ^—Cornus stohnifera: red osier; eight feet high; spreading 

 bush with bright crimson winter bark; bears abundantly 

 white berries slightly tinged with blue; small white flowers 

 in dense showy heads, in June. 

 4 — Berberis vulgaris: common barberry; eight to ten feet high; 

 pendulous, sweeping branches, weighted along their length 

 by clusters of vivid scarlet berries, persisting all winter; 

 fragrant yellow flowers in early spring; one of the most 

 attractive of the berry-bearing shrubs, 

 e — Viburnum dentatum: arrowwood; fifteen feet high; dense- 

 growing, vigorous upright shrub with gray-stemmed 

 branches, bending under a load of brilliant blue berries 

 that last vmtil hard freezing weather; quantities of tiny, 

 faintly-sweet flowers, in close heads, in May and June. 

 6 — Cornus candidissima: panicled cornel; fifteen feet high; up- 

 right dense shrub with gray smooth branches ; warm- white 

 berries on red stems lasting through October; white flowers 

 in profuse clusters in May and June. 

 In grouping these in a border planting, the rose may be used 

 for facing down before the others, its given height of six feet 

 being its height at the middle, not at the outer edges. Its 

 branches spread and arch enough to come well down to the 

 ground. The barberry is also suitable for the same location. 



