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but this is the best in underwood where a clear air overhead is sought. 

 For colour 



Siberian Dogwood (Cornus alba) is a splendid northerner for 

 the waterside or wet wood. Where planted in close groups it in 

 the end kills all the weeds it is planted among. Good in effect 

 all the year round, in wintry days it is the finest woodland 

 shrub for colour by stream or in copse ; a Dogwood one can 

 hardly misplace, hardy as a Siberian should be and easily 

 increased. 



Greater Partridge Berry (Gaultheria Shallon) is a fine hardy ever- 

 green bearing much fruit. In moist woodland it forms tall bushes 

 as at Coolhurst. It is sometimes seen in rock gardens, but its best 

 place is in copse or wood. Many 



Viburnums are coming to us from China now, but I have 

 not seen one so fine in bloom and fruit as the so-called Water 

 Elder ( Viburnum Opulus) of our Sussex woods. In such a 

 large northern family there should be others of value for wet 

 ground. 



Cherry Laurel, cropped, a disgrace to gardens, is for woodland a 

 fine evergreen, tall, of good form in the south at least. In the mid- 

 lands or north it might be cut to the ground in a hard winter. The 

 smaller-leaved varieties of the Cherry Laurel, distinct in effect from 

 the common kinds, grow freely in wet soil and are well worth a place 

 where evergreen covert is sought, The Azores form of the Portugal 

 Cherry Laurel, a handsome evergreen, is quite free here. The true 

 use for all the Cherry Laurels is as underwood in copse or wood never 

 touched by the shears. Then we see their fine grace of habit. A 

 beautiful 



Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virgzniana) is here a hardy vigorous 

 shrub flowering in October. It has been growing for many years on 

 a bank of wet soil, struggling and winning against other shrubs and 

 Briars. Seed of this is now offered, so there should be no bar to 

 getting a stock of it. 



Rose Bay, an English name for Rhododendron, is in its hardier 

 forms a fine evergreen for peaty woods, in dry districts thriving in 

 woods better than in the sun. Where layering the best way of 

 increase is practised plants of good sorts may be spared for the 

 woodland. Seedling plants with flowers of good colour often offer 

 a pleasant variation from the too common R. ponticum. 



Sweet Alders (Clethra), For underwood in wet or marshy places 

 these are delightful, flowering late in the summer, easy of cultivation, 

 and doing best in peaty or leaf soils, but not averse to any cool 

 soil. 



Swamp Bay ( Magnolia glauca). This, one of the finest flowering 



