OF SHRUBS 



enough. I prefer to consider them as satisfying to the palate as 

 to the vision. 



When we first took possession of our bit of wildwood, down by 

 the huge Wisconsin willow which overhung the water stood a 

 large panicled dog-wood, a splendid great bush some twenty feet 



SIlliUBBEKY KDG1NG T1IK LAWN 



in diameter, the constant refuge of the song sparrows who had 

 adopted the neighboring willow-grove for their own. Our idea 

 was not only to acclimatize the various eastern wild shrubs but 

 also to increase the number of those growths we already had, so 

 we put in small colonies of this dogwood, edging the forest in var- 

 ious places. We planted many of the red-stemmed dogwoods too 



and the round-leafed with its light blue berries; the silky dogwood 



153 



