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and natural-looking planting than one of evergreens alone. This 

 is true of rhododendrons as well as of conifers, for a house which 

 rises up out of a heavy somber bank of broad-leaved evergreens 

 tits as poorlv into the landscape as one \^■hose base is concealed 

 bv ranks of little conifers. 



Some of the berried shrubs which add to the agreeable appear- 

 ance of a foundation planting, as much by their graceful habit 

 of branching as by their colored fruits, are the barberries — Thun- 

 bergii and vulgaris; high bush cranberry (viburnum opulus), 

 which provides from its bright clusters food for the birds all 

 winter long; other members of the viburnum family: dcntatum or 

 arrow-wood, plicatum, tomentosum, and Carlesii, which has a 

 wonderfully fragrant flower; the honeysuckles, Indian currant, 

 and snowberrv; ilex Sicboldii (a little known but very brilliant 

 berried shrub) ; and the red stemmed dogwoods. Of these, ber- 

 beris vulgaris, all the viburnums, the honeysuckles, and dogwoods 

 grow to be big shrubs and ought therefiire to be planted where 

 they will not interfere with windows. Another shrub with an 

 impossible name but with the unusual possession of turquoise col- 

 ored berries is Symplocos Crataegoides. Its berries ripen at the 

 same time as those of the Tartarian honeysuckle, and the two 

 shrubs make a brilliant combination. Most of these shrubs have 

 attractive flouers as well as berries, and thus provide at the same 

 time for the summer and winter appearance of the base planting. 

 A few shrubs interesting chieflv for their summer dress do not 

 come amiss in any group near the house, and some of them look 

 especially well v.ith the dark foliage of evergreens: lilacs, white 



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