A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Rose, which, with me, gleam against arbor-vitse 

 all through the time of snow. These clusters 

 hang from drooping stems of lovely purple-brown, 

 the fruit is of a very bright orange-scarlet, and 

 the whole effect of bough and berry too most 

 brilliant and gay. Rosa setigera is never better 

 placed than against some dark evergreen such as 

 arbor-vitae or red cedar. Rose and cedar, cedar 

 and thorn — these are invariably interesting com- 

 panionships. 



That remarkable red-berried evonymus, the 

 variety called vegetus, is certainly destined to a 

 great future in this country. Doctor Wilhelm 

 Miller wrote of it with his wonted enthusiasm 

 some four years ago as the coming ivy for America, 

 the evergreen creeper to use as ivy is used in Eng- 

 land. My own specimens of this valuable thing 

 are young as yet; but all the beauty ascribed to 

 them I already easily imagine. A fine round leaf 

 of a lighter green color than that of Evonymus 

 radicans, an alertly branching habit which gives 

 promise of quick and graceful growth, and a 

 scarlet fruit (or probably orange-scarlet, as it is 

 said to resemble that of the common bittersweet) 

 which in the severest winter will not desert the 

 parent stem — what could an enthusiast ask 



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