Sambucus nigra aurea, the Golden Elder, is too garish Winter, 

 when seen close, and when too freely used, as is often the case Coloured 

 in small villa gardens, approaches nearly to a disfigurement; Stems 

 but when planted at the water-side the reflection is very brilliant. 

 The right way to use it is to mass it where it can be seen from 

 a distance, and to cut it also clean down every Spring. The 

 canes, which grow to about the same height as Cornus sanguinea, 

 are then in Winter of a uniform very light grey, and contrast 

 admirably with any adjoining dark evergreen mass such as 

 Cotoneaster Simonsii. 



Forsythia suspensa is fast in growth and graceful in habit, 

 but wants plenty of room. The long waving pendulous shoots 

 are covered with yellow bloom in early Spring, and show up 

 with a clear brown colour in Winter. 



The canes of Rubus odor at us roseus have much the same 

 colour as those of the common Raspberry, but it has the 

 advantage of a handsomer leaf and a more decorative compact 

 habit. Moreover, the bloom is very nearly as good as R. 

 nobilis, the charms of which I see my friend, Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, has been vaunting. It has the additional advantage 

 where quantity is required of reproducing itself very freely from 

 suckers. It should be lightly pruned and the dead canes removed 

 in Spring. 



Rubus pbtznicolasius, or Japanese Wineberry, is one of the 

 best of the Brambles in Autumn and Winter. It has much the 

 same habit as the common Blackberry, is perfectly robust, and 

 sends up a fair amount of young plants. The scarlet fruits, 

 with their rust-coloured sheaths and the stout hirsute lake-red 

 canes, all join to make it a valuable addition to a wild garden. 

 R. biflorus is generally treated as synonymous with R. 



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