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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1909 



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Make Your Roadside Interesting 

 All Winter 



THE one thing you can do this month that will 

 please your neighbors and yourself most is to 

 transplant to the roadside half a dozen bushes of 

 the red osier dogwood or of something else that will 

 be red all winter. For red is the cheeriest color 

 in winter. The long road from the station to 

 your home will seem only half as long if there is a 

 bright bit of color half-way. 



The best thing you can get for this winter's effect 

 is some bushes of the red osier dogwood which grows 

 wild in swamps. The young bushes are brighter 

 colored and easier to move. 



See if you can't find some silky dogwood (Cornus 

 Amomimi), which has flat clusters of white flowers 

 in May, berries in September, and purplish red 

 branches all winter. 



Also try for some yellow willow. 



The one red berry that everyone knows is the 

 winterberry {Ilex verticillata) , which has clusters 

 of brilliant fruits at Christmas that look like holly 

 berries on a leafless bush. It is really a deciduous 

 holly. It does not stay red all winter, but is a glori- 

 ous sight until New Years or later. 



Scour your neighborhood for bittersweet, barberry 

 and high bush cranberry (Viburnum Opulus), all 

 of which have red berries that last all winter. 



The only hardy native trees that have red ber- 

 ries which stay on all winter are the cockspur and 

 Washington thorns and the mountain ash. The 

 last, however, I should be afraid to move in the fall. 



Wait till March also before moving bayberry, 

 which has waxy white berries and fragrant foliage 

 and stems. It also has gorgeous colors in Novem- 

 ber, a month after most bushes have lost their 

 leaves. But mark and note a patch of it now or you 

 may not recognize it next spring. 



This fall, however, you can plant snowberry or 

 Indian currant, if you are lucky enough to know 

 where they grow wild. Both will give a good 

 show until Christmas. 



If none of these grow wild in your neighborhood 

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 them to join you in making a few bright spots 

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If you don't know this material, the best plan is 

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Annuals versus Perennials 



NOWADAYS where old-fashioned "perennials'" 

 are so much written about, annuals are often 

 neglected, which is a great mistake, as they stay in 

 bloom sometimes three times as long as the herba- 

 ceous plants. Cornflowers, salpiglossis, verbena, 

 tobacco and petunia are the best for long blooming 

 and do not dwindle in a drought like phloxes and 

 hollyhocks; of course these last should be in every 

 garden, and get the best of treatment, but the annu- 

 als give many more flowers. Salpiglossis are espec- 

 ially lovely and are easy to grow; but they do not sow 

 themselves as the others do. Petunias should be 

 pure white or pale pink; the mottled ones are mon- 

 strous and should be pulled up on sight. China 

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 and only last about ten days. 

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