THE MISSION OF THE CONIFERS. 



Is almost indispensable tor Christmas time, and the roliage of 

 this plant so much resembles it that it can take its place. 



Eerberls Repens. 



Add to this its glorious bloom with delicious iragrance and 

 its great masses of fruit and you have a combination seldom 

 gathered in one plant. We are fortunats in having a cut 

 to represent this berberry. 



I have carefully gathered seeds from the open spaces in the 

 Rockies and have raised plants by the thousand; but they 

 should be planted in sheltered places on the prairie or be covered 

 with hay in winter. If a screen of some sort were provided, they 

 would do well. The Black Hills are full of them, and they would 

 do well in Minnesota and the Dakotas. 



