THE SMALL PLACE 



Common Barberry with scarlet berries, then Ilex 

 verticillata or Winterberry . This is a very modest, 

 retiring plant until winter arrives and then its 

 small berries clinging close to the stem are the 

 most brilliant of all the winter fruits. On the 

 east boundary are Yellowroot with interesting 

 autumn foliage, the black-berried Elders, a July 

 fruiting shrub, and Cornus stolonifera with con- 

 spicuous red stems during the winter time. This 

 collection of berry-bearing shrubs produces color 

 effects which make a wonderful winter garden 

 quite independent of evergreens. 



The Wild garden has an individual character 

 of its own. The bowlder-edged pond has given 

 an incentive to use water-loving plants, plants of 

 a rock garden character, and such as will make 

 good pictures when reflected in the water. In 

 the pond Water Lilies are growing. Immediately 

 on the edge are Azaleas in vivid scarlet, yellow, and 

 orange tints. There are also groups of Japanese 

 Iris, Yellow Day Lilies, and ornamental grasses. 

 All these have interesting sheathlike foliage appro- 

 priate at the water's edge. On the other side of 

 the stepping-stone path which bounds this planting, 

 Cedars are planted in a mass just as they grow 



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