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November, 191 



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Shrubs and Vines for Shady 

 Situations 



WE HAVE planted shrubs three times around 

 our house. First in ignorance and high hope; 

 next with superficial knowledge, and a dash of hope; 

 and the last time, with experience and no hope, but 

 with a real landscape friend to give us courage. 

 And the following are some of the things we have 

 planted and the results we have had. 



Weigela, in one of the darkest corners of our 

 house, always blooms profusely in its proper sea- 

 son. In this same corner, we have Magnolia 

 slellata and Jew's mallow (Kerria), which do very 

 little except grow. The latter attains a height of 

 about eight feet. The high-bush cranberry {Vibur- 

 num Opulits) is one of our most successful shrubs, 

 and blooms wherever we have planted it. In May, 

 or early in June, the delicate white flowers spread 

 out wide apart, at the end of every branch, and 

 remain longer than almost any other bloom. The 

 fruit looks very much like sprays of cranberries; 

 it remains on the bush far into the winter, or until 

 the birds have devoured it. The plant is lovely all 

 the year round, in leaf, flower, or berry. 



The shad-bush {Amelanchier Canadensis) is 

 another hardy shrub with pure white flowers. Its 

 fruit is a purple colored berry; the foliage is bright 

 yellow in the autumn. The Slephanandra flexuosa, 

 a low-growing shrub and a relative of the spirea, 

 seems to thrive in the shade. It has dense foliage 

 and makes a very satisfactory filling-in shrub. We 

 have many spireas but as they are on the south- 

 western side of our house and have the sun most of 

 the day, I cannot say what they might do in the 

 shade. We like Spircea Van Houttei for high- 

 massed planting, and nothing is lovelier than the 

 plants in front of our house in May, when every 

 branch is literally covered with the fine white 

 blossoms. I hear some people say that they hate 

 the Anthony Waterer spirea, but if it is planted in 

 masses, and below a bank or against a background of 

 green and not mixed with other colors, it is very 

 pretty. It has the advantage of blooming almost 

 all summer, after it once begins in June. By 

 nipping off the first dried-up blossoms, the bloom 

 will return, I am told. I have not tried it. 



I need hardly speak of the rose of Sharon; who 

 does not remember it from earliest childhood in 

 every farm-house yard? Sometimes the only 

 blooming thing (except the geraniums and dahlias) , 

 as often in dense shade as in the sun, generally 

 rather straggling, but always full of bloom in 

 August and September? We have three little 

 trees planted in a group at our kitchen porch, 

 and they give a real farm-house touch to the 

 corner. 



The snowberry, next to the high-bush cranberry, 

 is, I think, our most effective shrub; and it is 

 evidently even more popular with the birds for, 

 after its lovely spreading white blossoms, the 

 sprays of smooth wax-like fruit disappear much 

 sooner than do those of the cranberry, but they last 

 late into the winter and combine effectively with the 

 red of the latter. We have many other shrubs which 

 deserve only brief mention not because they are 

 not beautiful but because they have done little here 

 in our woods. The berberis I have forgotten to 

 mention, however; that thrives everywhere and is 

 too satisfactory ever to be omitted. 



The laurel and rhododendron (both native and 

 hybrid) are so entirely at home with us that I had 

 almost forgotten to think of them as planted. Is 

 there anything more grateful than their green in 



