PLANTING THE FLOWER BEDS 11 



Berberis of almost every kind grow easily, and 

 can hardly be surpassed for beauty of form and 

 colour. Mahonia, Darwinii and Stenophilla are 

 some of the lovely yellow flowered ones, the fruit- 

 ing Berberis, so beautiful in autumn, and last, but 

 not least, the purple leaved Berberis, which is such 

 a delight to the eye, and such an enchanting con- 

 trast to the surrounding green. 



Spiraeas should be your next thought. S. airae- 

 folia, growing twelve feet high, and becoming 

 one mass of feathery cream flowers in July. 

 S. opufolia aurea, showing its golden foliage in 

 early spring. S. thumbergii, which is one of the 

 first shrubs to put forth its white flowers, followed 

 by the exquisite light green foliage, which takes 

 all the colours of the rainbow in autumn. S. 

 Anthony Waterei, three to four feet high, gives a 

 magnificent sheet of crimson flowers in July. In- 

 deed with Spiraeas one can hardly go wrong, for 

 almost all are both beautiful in foliage and prolific 

 in bloom. 



Brooms are very desirable in making a complete 

 change of foliage from the other plants. The 

 Spanish Broom is coarse growing, and only fit for 

 shrubberies, but the delicate white Portugal Broom 



