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NOVEMBER FLOWERING and BERRY BEARING SHRUBS 
In the colder states it will sound 
strange to mention flowering shrubs 
for November, but in Pennsylvania 
there are now three or four in their 
flowering season, and two, if not more 
of them, are hardy considerably north 
of this. 
This is written in the closing days 
of October, and I find in flower today 
Hamamelis Virginica, the witch hazel; 
Baccharis halimifolia, the groundsel 
shrub; Lycium Chinense, the matri- 
mony vine, or Washington’s bower, 
and Elseagnus Simoni. The witch 
hazel is hardly in its prime, the 
groundsel shrub just in perfection, the 
same of the Elaeagnus, and the Ly- 
cium has the curious feature of having 
vine or drooping shrub, fitting either 
situation. It bears light pink flowers, 
which are produced as the shoots 
lengthen, thus still giving flowers 
when the fresh ones have been suc- 
ceeded by red ripe berries. 
There is much to admire at this 
time and often into November in the 
way of beautiful foliage. The three 
maples, acer rubrum, A. saccharinum 
and A. rufinerve, as well as several of 
the Japanese varieties of polymor- 
phum, are now a blaze of color. Ox- 
ydendron arboreum, Quercus cocci- 
nea, Nyssa multiflora, Liquidambar 
styraciflua, Cerasus serotena and C. 
Sieboldi, Itea Virginica, the Rhus ty- 
phina, R. glabra and R. radicans (the 
play their seeds, always of a deep 
orange or scarlet color, the ef- 
fect being highly ornamental. In ad- 
dition the pods of the E. Americanus 
are of a pretty warty formation. All 
are beautiful at this time of the year. 
There are two Viburnums bearing 
attractive looking berries at this sea- 
son, the V. nudum and V. cassi- 
noides. The berries following the 
large flat head of white flower are 
green, then pink, and then black, and 
always the pink and black may be 
found on the bunches at the same 
time, as the ripening progresses. The 
foliage, too, is attractive, particular- 
ly that of nudum, which is large and 
of a shining green. 
EUONYMXTS SIEBOLDIANUS. 
BACCHARIS HALIMIFOLA. 
both flowers and ripe berries at the 
same time. 
As the Hamamelis grows wild in 
our woods it is usually somewhat 
sheltered by other shrubs and by 
trees so that unless considerable 
freezing occurs its flowers are visible 
some weeks in November, and being 
then on shoots bare of leaves it is of 
much interest. Elaeagnus Simoni is 
evergreen. It bears cream colored 
flowers at this season and they are del- 
icately fragrant, but I regret to say 
that although quite hardy in my gar- 
den it is not likeh' to be further 
north. 
The Lycium Chinense is a beautiful 
poison vine), and many others, are 
making a grand showing; and land- 
scape gardeners take care to plant 
these trees and shrubs for their Au- 
tumn effect, just as they do others for 
their flowers. 
Among the berry bearing shrubs 
that delight the eye because of bear- 
ing their bright fruit while still in 
leaf there are quite a few making an 
interesting display now. , 
There are three Euonymuses, -the E. 
Americanus, E. atropurpnreus and E. 
Europaeus which are exceedingly pret- 
ty. At this season of the year the 
pods which in themselves are usual- 
ly of ' a pink color, open and dis- 
I may have made some mention of 
Crataegus cordata before, but would 
say that it is just now nearing perfec- 
tion in the way of ripe fruit. Its ber- 
ries are of the brightest scarlet, and 
are made additionally attractive on ac- 
count of the bright green foliage be- 
hind them. This is one of the pretti- 
est of the well known hawthorns. 
Of the two illustrations, the Euony- 
mus Sieboldianus is an evergreen in 
mild winters here, deciduous in cold, 
exposed situations. The small, white 
flowers come in midsummer, the 
clusters of red berries now, not many 
in a bunch, but numerous bunches; 
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