A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



my thoughts at once to the snowberry; yet this 

 dwarf evergreen bush, pemettya, with its thick 

 clusters of waxen fruits, must be a thousand times 

 more beautiful than the symphoricarpos. The 

 pernettya is a smaller bush, in fact of dwarf habit. 

 Its fruits, in the picture referred to, remind one 

 of those marvellous flowers of the lovely gray- 

 leaved shrub Zenobia whose clustering bloom 

 once seen cannot be forgotten. 



And speaking of the snowberry, it is again most 

 perfect seen back of a planting of Berberis Thun- 

 bergii, with the glorious Mahonia aquifolium 

 showing in its glossy leaves not only tones of green 

 but tones of purple-bronze as well. A fine com- 

 pany, these shrubs together, and a lovely Decem- 

 ber effect with white and scarlet berries and the 

 holly -like mahonia foliage. 



Since I write on the general topic of the adorn- 

 ment of the home landscape for winter, why may 

 I not give a word to a marvel of a shrub whose 

 flowers in the latitude of Boston appear in Febru- 

 ary — yes, in mid-February ! This is the Jap- 

 anese witch-hazel. Fancy a shrub coming into 

 bloom in what is often the coldest of our winter 

 months, sending forth little yellow flowers along 

 the length of its branches, flowers which neither 



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