A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



greens, against a summery expanse of rich green 

 for contrast of form and color. For summer from 

 what myriads of subjects we may choose! But 

 for winter? Another story? Yes and no; for, 

 while we have many already, the list of shrubs 

 and smaller trees, and of creepers too, with ever- 

 green or nearly evergreen foliage, of trees and 

 shrubs with vari-colored bark, with fruits of bright 

 hues, is, thanks to the Arnold Arboretum and to 

 Mr. E. H. Wilson, its distinguished collector, 

 rapidly increasing. 



The matter of the better-known shrubs with 

 decorative fruits it is not necessary here to con- 

 sider at any great length. Viburnums, the sym- 

 phoricarpos, the older barberries, vulgaris and 

 Thunhergii, are so familiar that attention hardly 

 needs to be drawn to them. I may even dare to 

 say that the over-use in certain communities of 

 these fine things, the stupid copying by one after 

 another of the same shrubs arranged in the same 

 fashion has become too common. This was all 

 very well when shrub-planting first became general 

 in America, say twenty years ago; it is well still 

 in smaller communities; it is decidedly not well 

 in suburbs and in the lesser cities where money is 

 not so much of a consideration and where variety 



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