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winter attractiveness often overlooked. We must look for these 
attractive features in the color of the bark, in the evergreen 
foliage, or in the bright persistent fruits. Some of the plants 
desirable for winter effects are given below, with a brief descrip- 
tion of each from the stand-point of the horticulturist. There are 
many others which may be employed, but those enumerated are 
of easy acquisition at most nurseries. For convenience of refer- 
ence and selection they are grouped according to their attractive 
winter features. 
Species desirable on account of their colored bark: 
Kerria japonica, often called the Japanese rose, grows 4-5 feet 
tall and with an equal spread. The bark is of a yellow green. 
Cornus stolonifera flaviramea, the golden-stemmed osier. 
Bright yellow-green bark, the stems 4-6 feet tall and with an 
equal spread. Especially sunshiny during the winter. 
Cornus alba, C. stolonifera, and C. sanguinea, the red-stemmed 
osiers. All similar in habit and size to the golden-stemmed 
osier, but with dark red bark. 
Euonymus alaius. Bark dark brown, curiously winged on the 
branches. Grows 4-6 feet tall and wide, sometimes a little larger. 
very desirable shrub, not only on account of its winged 
branches, but also for the beauty of its foliage in autumn, and 
the brightness of its berries. 
Forsythia viridissima. With the new branches green. Grows 
4-6 feet or more. In mid-spring it has an added attraction in its 
profusion of yellow blossoms. 
The plants in which the value as winter decorative shrubs 
consists in the evergreen foliage, are divided by horticulturists 
into two groups, known as coniferous evergreens, such as the 
pine, hemlock, spruce and fir, and broad-leaved evergreens, of 
which the rhododendron, holly and laurel are examples. Of these 
the coniferous evergreens are greatly in the majority. A few of 
the more desirable follow: 
Pinus Cembra, P. Peuce and P. Strobus, all white pines. The 
leaves of these are soft and in bundles of 5. Eventually trees, 
but valuable in group planting until ten or twelve years old. 
Pinus densiflora nana, known as the Japanese table pine, or 
