SHRUBBERY AND SHRUBS 177 



But this broad-leaved evergreen group, lovely 

 though many of its members are, does not sur- 

 pass in winter beauty, in my opinion, the vi- 

 brant warmth of the barberry's scarlet fruits, 

 quivering the length of every branch, nor of its 

 tangle of red-brown twigs; or the great cymes 

 of the high-bush cranberry which nod aloft de- 

 fying sleet and snow until spring brings forth 

 the young leaves to crowd them out of their 

 way; or the deep burgundy of the cornel 

 branches laced against the snow; or the bright 

 hips and glowing color of the wild-rose mass. 

 The broad-leaved evergreens, too, such as rho- 

 dodendron and laurel and andromeda, require 

 certain soil conditions for successful growth, 

 but the shrubs just named will grow anywhere 

 practically, in any soil and situation. 



Roses are shrubs, of course — but none of the 

 hybrid double roses should ever find their way 

 into the shrubbery. There are several lovely 

 shrubbery roses available for such massing, 

 either in groups made up of themselves alone, 

 or mingled with a general planting; but these 

 are never the double rose of the florist. At 

 most they are only semidouble, usually they 

 are single. The great roses of the rose garden 

 — the hybrid teas and perpetuals and all the 

 fancier's kind — are artificial products of cen- 



