i/2 BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS 



banks ten feet high and a hundred yards long. It makes a great 

 sight in summer when thousands of its big yellow flowers are open. 

 The name of this plant is Hypericum calycinum. In England it 

 flourishes in full sunlight, but this is too much to expect from any 

 broad-leaved evergreens in America, save yucca and a few things 

 of minor importance. The Pacific coast ought to try this plant. 



We can excel England on evergreen creepers with red berries 

 that are attractive all winter, except, of course, when covered w r ith 

 snow. The best for woods are our native wintergreen (Gaul- 

 theria procumbens} and partridge-berry (Mitchella repens). An 

 Englishman will sometimes spend a hundred dollars to carpet a 

 little patch of woods with these lovely plants which grow by the 

 million in America on land worth five dollars or ten dollars an acre. 



For the sea-side the best red-berried evergreen creeper is the 

 bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi), which thrives in full sun on 

 sand or rock. 



The climbing euonymus also has red berries, but as a creeper 

 it is not so valuable, because it humps up every little while, in an 

 abortive effort to climb. 



There is an exquisite white-fruited creeper that is buried in 

 catalogues under the name of Pachysandra terminalis, as an offset to 

 which I propose "Japanese mountain spurge." It has highly 

 characteristic leaves, dainty little spikes of whitish flowers, and 

 quaint clusters of fat, waxy berries, which are attractive in summer. 



THE FOLIAGE EFFECT 



Of all the broad-leaved evergreens that are cultivated for 

 foliage alone, box is undoubtedly the most important for Northern 

 countries. True, holly has a deeper religious significance, and 

 when it is grown by the mile for hedges little or no fruit is expected. 



