SEPTEMBER, 1908 
Flowering apples are laden with a profusion of 
small fruits which also give an excellent jelly. Pyrus 
floribunda, having yellow fruits 
Doubtless your grounds already contain 
some shrubs with attractive fruits, but it is 
worth while to ask yourself these questions: 
Would not my place be more attractive in 
autumn if I had a larger mass—say a 
dozen or two of my favorite berried shrub? 
Shall I not plant something this fall to 
attract rare migrant birds? What shall I 
plant this fall to make our home grounds 
cheery all winter? 
1.—Tall Fruits of September 
The mountain ash is one of the best trees 
you can plant for all the purposes above 
mentioned, provided you live pretty well 
north or ina hill country, for it thrives only 
in a cool climate. Its large nodding clusters 
of coral red berries will remain until mid- 
winter if not eaten by the birds as they 
usually are. 
The handsome pinnate foliage turns yellow 
or orange in the autumn. The European 
mountain ash (Sorbus Aucuparia), of which 
there is also a variety with yellow berries, 
usually becomes a tree, while the native 
species (S. Americana) commonly remains 
shrubby and has smaller berries. Another 
though less common native species (S. decora) 
has berries as large as those of the European 
kind. 
The different varieties and hybrids of the 
Siberian crab apple (Pyrus baccata) and 
allied species as P. floribunda and P. Toringo, 
are adorned in September with a profusion 
of ornamental fruits varying greatly in size 
and color. Those with deep red fruits are 
especially very handsome. Some keep their 
fruits, though in a shriveled state, all winter. 
Besides their ornamental fruits the crab- 
apples are exceedingly beautiful in spring 
with their wealth of white or pink flowers. 
The tupelo or sour gum (Vyssa sylvatica) 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
is very handsome in September with its 
oblong bluish black fruits suspended on 
slender peduncles between the glossy deep 
green foliage. The fruits remain on the 
tree all winter if not carried away by the birds 
The foliage turns in fall to bright scarlet 
suffused with orange yellow. 
The flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) 
which is so beautiful in spring is also very 
ornamental in fall with its scarlet fruits and 
its deep red foliage. The closely related 
Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas), a small tree 
from Europe, bears in September and 
October similar but larger fruits and keeps 
its dark green glossy foliage unchanged 
until November. 
THE HAWTHORNS AND THEIR KIN 
The hawthorns are a very large and 
interesting group of small trees or large 
shrubs which are attractive both in flower 
and fruit. Most of them have flat clusters 
of white flowers in spring. 
The Siberian crab has red fruit in September. 
There is a great range of both colors and size in the 
members of the apple family 
The purple fruits of Crataegus coccimioides 
ripen in September and fall off gradually 
during October. Somewhat later the fruits 
of Crataegus coccinea assume their red color 
and remain on the branches until November. 
Among the most beautiful hawthorns are 
Crataegus macracantha and C. succulenta 
which keep their brilliant scarlet fruits from 
September until almost midwinter. 
Equally handsome is the Washington 
thorn (Crataegus cordata), with smaller 
but numerous bright orange red fruits which 
stay on the branches almost through the 
whole winter. The bright green lustrous 
foliage is handsome too, especially in fall 
when it turns scarlet and orange. 
The cockspur-thorn (Crataegus Crus- 
galli) ripens very late its dull red fruits which 
hang on to the branches often until the 
following spring. All hawthorns are well 
adapted for planting on dry slopes and 
banks and are very fastidious as to the soil. 
Two early fruiting hawthorns were 
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described in August. Allied to the haw- 
thorns are the cotoneasters, C. vulgaris and 
C. nummularia, which begin to show their 
fruits the end of August and hold them until 
October, while the fruits of C. tomentosa 
ripen somewhat later and remain on the 
branches until midwinter. 
I].—Bush Fruits of September 
There are so many of these that it is 
necessary to classify them in some way if 
we are to think clearly about them and I 
have therefore arranged them as far as 
possible by the color of the fruit. 
THE TWO BEST BERRIES 
One of the best red-berried shrubs of 
September is the common barberry (Berberis 
vulgaris). This is a common wayside bush 
in New England. It is certainly beautiful 
when its gracefully arching branches bend 
down under the weight of drooping clusters 
of scarlet berries. Still more beautiful, 
however, is the Japanese Berberis Thunbergit, 
with its large oblong berries which keep their 
brilliant scarlet color unchanged throughout 
the whole winter and are not carried away 
by the birds or injured by the frost. The 
foliage, too, is handsome and changes to 
bright scarlet or orange in fall. Like other 
barberries it grows well in almost any soil 
and situation. 
TWO-COLORED BERRIES 
Most of the spindle-trees ripen their 
fruits during September. Only Euonymus 
nana, a low, often creeping shrub with nar- 
row half-evergreen foliage opens its purple 
pods about the middle of August and dis- 
closes its orange red seeds. 
A little later the European Euonymus 
latijolius, a tall spreading shrub, one of the 
most beautiful of all with its large foliage 
The two-color effect of the spindle-trees is very 
striking. The flesh colored capsules burst, disclosing 
bright red seeds (Huonymus Bungeanus) 
