HAROLD A. CAPARN 



alba and Common Barberry are interplanted. 

 The Barberry has its greenish yellow pendants 

 in April, the Cornel has small flat clusters of 

 white flowers in June. In autumn the white 

 Cornel berries make a contrast with the red fruit 

 of the Barberry and in winter Cornus alba has 

 brilliant red stems. Again Stephanandra and 

 Regel's Privet are planted together. One blooms 

 in May, the other in July. They have an in- 

 teresting winter effectiveness for the Stephanandra 

 stems are orange tinted and the Privet has per- 

 sistent black fruit. Philadelphus microphyllus and 

 Spircea Anthony Waterer are grouped together. 

 The foliage delicacy and small dainty white flowers 

 of this variety of Mock Orange are quite choice in 

 comparison with the coarser growth of the Spiraea 

 and give two distinctly different effects to the 

 same spot. 



In such careful massing the shrubs can be used 

 in small groups, sometimes only one of a kind, 

 sometimes five or six plants used together. In 

 this kind of grouping there is always something 

 new and interesting, always something different 

 on the path to attract attention, through the 

 whole cycle of seasons, which makes a new little 

 garden adventure every time we pass along. 



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