PLANTING NEAR A BUILDING 



foliage is evergreen and in the early spring the 

 plants are covered with a mass of white, bell- 

 like flowers. Mahonia, or Berheris aqiiifolium, is 

 good throughout the year. The masses of 

 bright-yellow flowers among the new, glossy 

 growth of leaves are most attractive in the 

 early spring ; the foliage is a rich green all sum- 



Andromeda (Pieris) floribunda: Andromeda. 



mer, and the autumnal and winter coloring of 

 rich, dull red, greens and bronzes is unexcelled. 

 The exquisitely beautiful and fragrant 

 Daphne cneorum is one of the most attractive 

 flowering shrubs ; it is of dwarf habit, from one 

 to two feet high, and evergreen. In the spring 

 a border of it is a mass of delicate rose-pink 

 flowers of delicious perfume. 



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