WINTER AND SUMMER EFFECT 281 



and its foliage assumes lovely tints in the autumn. 

 It is of very graceful habit, and well suited for banks 

 or overhanging rocks. It should be moderately 

 pruned each year, and when it attains to a leggy 

 appearance cut hard back. S. canescens (syn. hyperici- 

 folid) makes splendid beds owing to the pretty 

 arrangement of the foliage. This should be pruned 

 to the ground annually. 



Symphoricarpus racemosus (the Common Snow- 

 berry) is generally regarded as an almost worthless 

 plant, but when in a sunny open position on well- 

 trenched land and cut close to the ground each year, 

 large beds are most attractive in autumn and winter, 

 as by such treatment the growths will become thickly 

 studded with pure white fruits. S. variegatus is a very 

 pretty, somewhat slow-growing golden-leaved shrub, 

 and should be planted in an open position. It has a 

 tendency to revert back to the green form. Shoots 

 of the type should be kept cut away. This should 

 be shghtly pruned in spring, and when leggy cut to 

 the ground. 



Rosa rubiginosa (the Sweet Briar). — Every 

 woodland walk, wilderness, or wild garden should 

 have one bed or more of this fragrant plant. The 

 delicious scent emitted from its foliage in spring after 

 showers is very welcome, and the bushes, when 

 heavily laden with the bright-red fruits in autumn 

 and winter, are most effective. This should be 

 planted at a distance of 3 feet apart in well-trenched 

 and heavily-manured ground, and clipped over every 

 spring. 



