The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



is not to increase one's stock as the new growth is 

 usually prostrate the first year, lying supinely 

 on the ground and if left undisturbed will throw 

 out roots at the joints and rapidly produce at- 

 tractive little plants as robust as the parent stock. 

 Lifting the branches occasionally will prevent 

 rooting but usually one Hkes to have the new 

 plants form. I do. After becoming well rooted 

 the branch should be severed between the plant 

 and the parent. As the root growth is dense, 

 consisting of a mass of fibrous roots, the young 

 plants can be lifted at almost any time and reset 

 without much check to growth. The pale, pinky- 

 white flowers come in mid-summer, followed by 

 the white berries which remain on the bushes well 

 into the winter and are very attractive. 



Somewhat similar in its way of increase is the 

 Deutzia-Pride of Rochester. That magnificent 

 shrub which challenges our admiration when cov- 

 ered with its drooping, bell-shaped white flowers 

 late in June and which, under favorable condi- 

 tions, assumes the proportions of a small tree. 

 Like the symphoricarpus the lateral branches are 



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