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Bacon puts it: "I do hold it in the Royall Ordering of Gardens 

 that there ought to be gardens for all the months of the year; in 

 which severally things of beauty may be there in season." One 

 of the good plants to use is Ligustrum vidgare foliosum. This is a 

 form of the common European Privet, but differs from it in having 

 narrow leaves and larger fruit. It holds its leaves without a change 

 of color until the beginning of Winter, which makes it a good sub- 

 ject for garden decoration. Its black berries are borne in great 

 profusion and in large clusters which add to its ornamental value. 



Even though the leaves may fall and the berries be eaten by the 

 birds, it is still possible to have plenty of color in the garden by 

 planting shrubs which possess red and yellow stems, particularly 

 the Dogwoods of different kinds. In a corner of the Meadow 

 Road in the Arboretum a handsome collection of American Cornels 

 may be found. Here we see Cornus stolanifera with red stems, and 

 its xSiTiety flaviramea with yellows tems. These plants, with Kerria 

 japonica to provide rich green stems, are splendid for any garden. 



Even when the ground is blanketed with snow there is much of 

 interest and beauty within the Arboretum gates. It is then that 

 the Conifers, always delightful, show up to the best advantage. 

 Scores of trees and shrubs carry their gaily colored fruit well into 

 Winter. Some of the Hawthorns, of which there are several 

 groups, keep their berries until Spring, and so do the Barberries. 

 As a matter of fact it has been found from actual observation in 

 the Arboretum that it is possible in this climate to have flowers 

 every month in the year except possibly December. The foreign 

 Witch Hazels begin to flower in late Winter, and last through until 

 March, when some of the Willows burst into bloom. 



Perhaps all this will give you at least a meager conception of the 

 great work which the Arboretum is doing, the great task to which 

 it has set its hand, and what it offers to the public as well as to 

 specialists and nurserymen. 



The Arnold Arboretum is a great living museum of trees and 

 shrubs. It is more than that. It is a wonderful example of land- 

 scape gardening, one of the best in the world. Its influence upon 

 American horticulture is incalculable, and this influence must 

 necessarily go on growing, as long, may we hope, as the Arboretum 

 lasts, that is to say, for a thousand years and then another thousand 

 years, and so on forever. 



