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BITTERSWEET 
after looking sagely about, start away after the more 
satisfactory Thorn Apples or Mountain Ash berries. 
The Bittersweet manifests a decided preference for 
the Cedar, which it seldom strangles, but twines 
about in a helpful way. Perhaps it is because the dark, 
palm-like sprays of the evergreen afford the finest 
contrasts for its glowing orange and scarlet. Nowhere 
does it seem so well to deserve its common name 
" waxwork ” as when drooping between the shelving 
foliage of a snow-decked Cedar. There it shows that 
the season of fruition can reveal beauties rivalling the 
bloom of spring, beauties unmarred by obtrusive 
utility and free from the persistent and oppressive 
sense of evanescence. 
