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really berries, but the effect is produced by the opening of the orange-colored 



pods displaying their scarlet seed covers. For covering bowers or trellis work 



this is an excellent hardy vine, and why it should be so little used in our 



Canadian lawns is to us a mystery, unless because of some inexplicable prejudice 



against using any plants or trees that are indigenous to our own soil. 



A writer in the American Garden says of it, 



Several years' trial have shown me that this aspiring vine can be trained. I have a 

 gateway arch covered with bittersweet, and admired by all who see it. The arch is formed 

 of ordinary water-pipe, with couplings and wire netting two feet in width. An upright 

 of pipe on either side of the gate has a cross-bar of pine two feet long at its top, ana from 

 the ends of the cross-bar spring arches of small pipe upon which is laid a roof of wire 



SPRIG OF BLACK ALDEB. 



netting. The vigorous vines climbed the uprights of the arch like wild fire, and when I 

 bent them down and fastened them to the netting they soon bristled everywhere with up- 

 reaching branches, but under a free use of the pruning shears, cutting back two or three 

 buds, they behave charmingly. 



AH summer the clean, thrifty leaves, waxy branches and bunches of plump green 

 berries are a delight to the eye. But when autumn comes and the leaves turn yellow, and 

 the berry capsules are orange, I almost think my arch is more beautiful than in summer. 

 Still again, as winter approaches and the snow begins to fall and their yellow capsules turn 

 back and show coral red berries hanging out from the snowy iireh, I am in delight, and 

 at Christmas time, when I am asked for bunches of berries for decoration, I am seltish 

 enough to refuse to let them go, for they will hang as bits of brightness through the long 

 northern winter, and I cannot spare them. 



It is a marvel that this and so many other beautiful shrubs are despised 

 simply because they are so common. There are the Elders, which are nearly 



