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to be necessary to plant this Thorn against a sunny 

 wall to ensure a full crop of fruits ; it is rarely successful 

 in the shade. The Cockspur Thorn (Crataegus crus- 

 galli) bears handsome, dark red fruits, while those of 

 Crataegus mollis are also very showy. Then there is the 

 yellow-fruited Thorn, so rarely grown in gardens ; its 

 botanical name is Crataegus oxyacanthoides fructu-luteo. 

 Finally worth inclusion is Crataegus coccinea, having 

 large, bright red fruits. Among the Barberries special 

 reference should be made to Berberis vulgaris, having 

 scarlet fruits. 



The Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is an 

 especially attractive shrub or small tree clothed with 

 grey leaves ; at this time of year it is striking because 

 of its profusion of orange-coloured berries. The flowers 

 of this shrub are unisexual the female flowers are on 

 one plant, and the male flowers on another thus it is 

 necessary to group plants bearing each kind of blossom 

 near one another. The Pernettya is a delightful, low- 

 growing shrub that bears pretty, variously-coloured 

 berries very freely. There are numerous varieties having 

 fruits of different shades of colour, ranging from white, 

 through pink to rose and red. Gaultheria procumbens 

 and Gaultheria Shallon are most useful evergreen shrubs, 

 quite happy under the shade of large trees. The former, 

 a creeping shrub, has red berries; the latter, growing 

 some 2 or 3 feet high, bears purple berries. The shrubs 

 named are quite easy to grow in ordinary loamy soil. 

 The Sea Buckthorn is, as one may imagine from its 

 popular name, a seaside shrub, and it is perhaps happiest 

 in moist ground by the waterside ; the proximity of 

 water is not, however, essential to its welfare. 



Basic Slag. This is perhaps the most generally 

 useful of all artificial manures; it is not unpleasant to 

 handle, it is easy to apply and fairly cheap. It is safe 

 because slow-acting, and an excess is likely to do little 

 if any harm, compared with the damage that would 



