especially those that bear 

 berries that persist until 

 spring. Among these may 

 be mentioned the bar- 

 berries, burning bush, 

 chokeberry, buckthorn, 

 sumach, snowberries and 

 various roses. Some ot 

 these as well as others 

 which carry fruit in the 

 summer, will attract 

 many birds like robins 

 and cedar waxwings. 

 The writer had for sev- 

 eral seasons a family of 

 robins around his dwelling 

 during the winter, feeding 

 on rose hips and choke- 

 berries. Other shrubs like 

 the red and yellow 



branched cornels and the orange-twigged willow, are 

 very useful to lend color to the winter landscape. 



So far nothing has been said of the creeping and climb- 

 ing shrubs, the vines, but since park, garden, or dwelling, 

 is hardly complete with- 

 out them, they deserve 

 at least honorable men- 

 tion. They will cover 

 the roughest brick wall, 

 beautify the worst con- 

 crete building, clamber 

 over the barest rock, 

 transform the old tree 

 stump into an object of 

 beauty, and will do 

 wonders in hiding the 

 occupant of the front 

 porch from the gaze of 

 the envious. Boston 

 ivy, which comes not 

 from Boston but from 

 Japan, will adhere well 

 to almost any surface 

 The blossoms of the biittonbaii bush exccpt a newly painted 



