BRIGHT-BERRIED GROWTH 



further as a lovely garnishment for his walls or 

 piers for winter? Those glorious fruits of the 

 black swamp-alder, bright scarlet beads along 

 brown stems, which occasionally light up the 

 snowy December landscape in Michigan, set one's 

 thought at once to a cheerful Christmas tune. 

 The fruits of this fine evergreen vine for America 

 will, when they are known, do the same for the 

 individual householder. "Evergreen it is," says 

 Doctor Miller, easy to grow (perfectly hardy in 

 the latitude of Boston), wonderful in its winter 

 fruit, and "it promises to develop a strong Ameri- 

 can character." 



The graceful sprays of the snowberry, however, 

 bring to my mind the fact that these same fruits 

 used in early September for cutting with lavender 

 and rich purple annual asters are surprisingly 

 good. In this connection it occurs to me, too, 

 that between these snowberry bushes a plenteous 

 use of hardy asters in taller and more dwarf varie- 

 ties should produce a satisfying late September 

 and early October effect. A lovely picture lately 

 noticed, of a beautiful white^berried shrub, is of 

 Pernettya mucronata. Sad to say this shrub is 

 not hardy in the northern part of America — I 

 mention it here because its photograph turned 



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