198 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



winter beauty depends upon berry-bearing trees 

 and shrubs. In the countryside the great hollies 

 are alight with thousands of vermilion -red berry 

 clusters, gleaming amid the dark, shining leaves ; 

 the spindle tree is lovely with its crowded coral 

 fruits, and the hedges glow crimson with their 

 myriad haws. In the gardens Arbutus Unedo bears 

 its globular, rough -coated fruits of crimson hue. 

 In Devon and Cornwall Cornus capitata, formerly 

 called Benthamia fragifera, and also known by the 

 title of strawberry tree, is often loaded with its red 

 fruits well into the winter. A large example of 

 Cotoneaster frigida, thirty-five feet in height and 

 forty feet through, so crowded with berries that it 

 appears a cloud of crimson from a little distance, 

 is a glorious sight, and C. horizontalis and C. 

 Simoni are attractive berry - bearers. Cratcegus 

 Pyracantha, sometimes known as the fire thorn, 

 and its variety Lcelandi, are commonly trained on 

 house fronts and are handsome objects when 

 smothered in their orange -scarlet berries. Sym- 

 phoricarpus racemosiis, the snowberry, with its 

 rounded fruits of glistening white, is an excellent 

 foil to other berry-bearing shrubs, such as Skimmia 

 japonica, with its scarlet clusters ; and nothing is 

 more ornamental than the common passion-flower 



