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clusters in May succeeded by bluisli-blaek ber- 

 ries. Its handsome deep green glossy foliage, 

 which assumes a bronze or coffee hue in winter, 

 and its neat habit render it especially valuable 

 for decorative planting. Another evergreen 

 shrub of value is Euonymus Japonicus, or 

 Japanese euonymus. 



SHRUBS SUITED TO THE CITY YARD 



In the selection of evergreen varieties for 

 planting in cities, we are to some extent lim- 

 ited by soil conditions and by the injury in- 

 flicted by the smoke-filled atmosphere. Only 

 such evergreens as will most sturdily withstand 

 these blasts of coal smoke and which, at the 

 same time, will not make too many demands 

 for special soils should be planted. In the list 

 of deciduous shrubs, however, we find less 

 delicacy displayed ; they submit more happily to 

 adverse conditions which the evergreens could 

 scarcely withstand, and apparently thrive de- 

 spite them. While the deciduous varieties that 

 bloom in late summer are few, there is ap- 

 parently ho end to the varieties that flower in 

 spring or early summer. In the list of these 

 not only is almost every color of flower to be 

 had and every height from one to twelve feet 



