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the Summer chimes which call the humming bird and butterflies 

 and bees to their noonday convocations. 



The evergreen Barberries are justly popular, the most fre- 

 quently planted being Berberis japonica and Mahonia aquijolia^ 

 which require a partially shaded situation and a rather moist soil 

 and do well when planted in a thick group of shrubbery. Here 

 the heads of yellow flowers show brilliantly in the very earliest 

 days of Spring, and the clusters of turquoise-blue berries that 

 persist all Summer are most interesting and unusual. 



Of all the evergreen plantings none can be given that are 

 more reliable and 'satisfactory than the evergreen Privets. They 

 are sufficient in themselves to make an interesting garden. 

 IJgustrum japonicum^ L. lucidum and L. nepalense are most used 

 for thick background and screen plantings and by judicious 

 mingling of these three varieties one can make a screen twenty- 

 five feet tall that comes close down to the turf. The blossoms 

 of all these varieties are typical and they have large leaves of 

 shiny green which when small are of delicate light green color and 

 when matured are rich deep chrome. The clusters of green ber- 

 ries on Ligustrum japonicum and L. nepalense are very attractive 

 in Summer. In the Fall and Winter they are purple and black 

 with a soft bloom. 



For Hghter plantings where a more delicate growth is needed 

 Ligustrum ^uihoui and L. sinense are good. Their foliage is very 

 small and dainty and much Hghter than the ones just mentioned. 

 All of the Privets give fine results in landscape work. 



It were a waste of time to enumerate all the evergreen plant- 

 ings that can be used in the Southern States. With those that 

 are given borders of broad-leaved evergreens can be made that 

 will serve every purpose needed and that will be in blossom from 

 January to January and that will be always beautiful. 



Rhododendrons are wonderfully beautiful in the sections 

 between Asheville and Atlanta, but farther south are hard to 

 establish and usually unsatisfactory. This is written in spite 

 of a few successful plantings. The average garden rule for Rho- 

 dodendrons is failure. Why try them ? 'Our world is so full 



