BRIGHT-BERRIED GROWTH 



berry tribe in the abundance of fruit produced? 

 None except perhaps the Loniceras or bush honey- 

 suckles; and while their berries are wonderful 

 for bright profuseness and those of Lonicera 

 Maackii, var. podocarpa, that finest of all bush 

 honeysuckles, garnish the branches far into the 

 time of cold, surely the barberries and cotoneasters 

 are the two which best defy the winter storms. 

 As for the new Chinese barberries, they will be, 

 I predict, if anything more used than the Japanese. 

 "Berberis Wilsonce," writes one who grows and 

 knows it, "has been most welcome to the land- 

 scape-gardener. It can be used in several posi- 

 tions with advantage, and it produces effect the 

 first season after planting." 



But besides the snowberries, viburnums, and 

 barberries the better-known fruiting shrubs for 

 winter beauty are the privets and the roses. 

 Throughout December and even later may be 

 found the beautiful blue-black clusters of small 

 fruits upon Hegel's privet {Ligustrum Regelianum) 

 as well as upon the common privet {Ligustrum 

 vulgare). And among the roses may be mentioned 

 the large black haws of Rosa spinosissima, the 

 vivid scarlet ones of Rosa lucida, and the charm- 

 ing clustered berries of Rosa setigera, the Michigan 



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