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BRIGHT-BERRIED GROWTH FOR 

 THE WINTER GARDEN 



/^N an October day, black wind-clouds in the 

 ^-^ distance, a ray of sunlight suddenly breaks 

 upon a mass of almost leafless sweetbrier, sweet 

 honeysuckle entwined among its thorns. The 

 boughs of the brier are hung with scarlet haws 

 which glow against the dark-gray background of 

 the sky and cheer the gardener with the thought 

 that though green may have departed other color 

 remains. The barberries of various varieties pro- 

 duce, with their single or clustering berries of 

 scarlet, a like effect; and a tiny shrub, new this 

 year to me and in its infancy, being now but ten 

 inches high, is beautiful beyond description in its 

 berried state. This is Cotoneaster hidlata, far less 

 formidable and more charming than its name 

 would imply. 



And now the glorious bronze foliage of Rasa 

 lucida is a treasure. Its use with dull-pink hardy 

 chrysanthemums, or, if frost shall have spared 

 them, with the scarlet dahlia, is a thing to re- 



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