BRIGHT-BERRIED GROWTH 



as I have always thrust from me the idea of even 

 a tiny glass-house as being too much of a tempta- 

 tion and distraction in winter, so am I almost 

 but not quite inclined not to urge the use of the 

 delightful newer shrubs for winter effect upon the 

 gardener who seeks the peace which only comes 

 after the first frost, the gardener "whose ungar- 

 nered sheaves are past the help of burlap." 



A trial garden for shrubs — here is the needed 

 thing. "The trial garden," writes Mr. Jacob in 

 "The Garden," "deliberately planned, is a rare 

 thing to find. Yet if one wishes to insure a 

 harmonious blending of the occupants of his beds 

 and borders, no suggestion can be more practical. 

 There under our own eye we may see samples of 

 everything that seeks for admission, and we can 

 note its shade or tone of color and its appearance 

 were this or that its bedfellow." Nothing could 

 now prove more valuable for the American ama- 

 teur horticulturist than the establishment, where 

 there is inclination plus the necessary space, of 

 a trial garden for the little-known shrubs from 

 western China now available for American winter 

 effect. 



Some years since a highly interesting list of 

 shrubs and shrublike trees was published in one 



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