CHAPTER V 



ORNAMENTAL FRUITED TREES AND 

 SHRUBS 



ABUNDANCE OF AVAILABLE MATERIAL TO GIVE BRIL- 

 LIANCY AND CHARACTER TO AMERICAN GARDENS 

 DURING FALL AND WINTER 



LOVERS of woody plants who live in eastern 

 North America enjoy certain advantages over 

 -• their British compeers and for these the much- 

 abused climate is responsible. In New England and 

 the north generally, we are denied the wealth of hardy 

 evergreen plants which thrive in Old England and the 

 variety of plants which will grow out of doors is less, 

 but there are compensations. The plants that do 

 thrive here grow more rapidly, flower more freely, and 

 fruit very much more profusely than they do on 

 the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing 

 strikes a horticulturist from Great Britain more 

 forcibly than the wealth of fruit which here de- 

 velops on the shrubs and trees. Such visitors find 

 that many old and familiar plants possess a world of 

 beauty heretofore quite unknown to them, and certain 

 it is that all the perfectly hardy woody plants put 



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