FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
For your convenient reference I append a list of 
what appears to me to be twenty-five of the best 
shrubs for general planting. Altheas in variety; 
barberry; deutzia in variety; dogwood in variety; 
euonymous, American and European; Tartarian 
honeysuckle in variety; hydrangea paniculata 
grandiflora; lilac in variety; prunus triloba; Japan- 
quince in variety; purple fringe; ribesaureum; spi- 
rea in variety; syringa in variety; viburnum in var- 
iety; weigela in variety; elder; forsythia; exochorda; 
Chinese privet; dwarf horse-chestnut. To these 
add, according to locality, for evergreen, mountain 
laurel, rhododendron, mahonia, and box. 
In the arrangement of shrubs, as of trees, we 
must remember that we are planting for the whole 
year, and not to have something in the spring or 
for midsummer only. It is not difficult to so ar- 
range our shrubbery as to modify the dullness of 
winter, as well as the warmth of summer. I rec- 
ommend you to plant very freely of the barberries 
and the high-bush cranberry. These, with warm, 
red berries covering them all winter, make January 
comfortable at least to the eye. In March and 
April they draw the cedar birds and the pine gros- 
beaks — beautiful birds that are very companion- 
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