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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
BEAUTIFUL BERRIED SHRUBS 
OF DECEMBER 
Those who are accustomed to house 
themselves as soon as the leaves fall on 
the approach of winter, are accustomed 
to look on the season of beauties in 
trees and shrubs as being over, but 
those who keep up their interest in out- 
door life know that there are lovely 
sights in foliage and berries far into 
the early part of winter, and to some 
extent really all through the cold sea- 
son. This is being written towards 
the close of the third week in Novem- 
ber, and there are to be counted as 
many as twenty-five or more of shrubs 
still showing beautiful berries. Here is 
a list of them, with the color of their 
fruit ; Berberis Thunbergii, red ; 
Baccharis halimifolia, white seeds ; 
Celastrus scandens, scarlet ; Cornus 
florida, red; Callicarpa purpurea, light 
purple; Callicarpa Americana, light 
purple; Cotoneaster Simonsi, scarlet; 
Ligustrum Ibota, black ; Pyrus arbuti- 
folia, red ; Pyrus melanocarpa, black ; 
Prinos verticillatus, red ; Photinia vil- 
losa, red ; Myrica cerifera, gray ; Rhus 
typhina, orange red ; Rhus glabra, 
FRUIT OF CELASTRUS SCANDENS. 
RHUS TYPHINA. 
orange red ; Rhodotypos kerrioides, 
black ; Rosa Carolina, red ; Symphori- 
carpos .vulgaris, red ; Symphoricarpos 
racemosus, white; Viburnum Wrighti, 
scarlet ; Viburnum opulus, scarlet. The 
above list comprises deciduous sorts. 
There are still evergreens to be 
counted, and here there are Skimmia 
Japonica, scarlet; Crataegus pyracan- 
tha, orange ; Hedera helix, black ; Ilex 
opaca, red, and Ilex aquifolium, red. 
Just think of what a fine list this is 
for mid- winter enjoyment, for practi- 
cally the whole list hold their berries 
until New Year’s, and the most of them 
later in the warmer states. 
Three of the subjects are illustrated 
to show their beauties, the Celastrus 
scandens, Rhus typhina and Prinos 
verticillatus. The Celastrus is the vine 
called staff vine, or vine native to many 
parts of the country including Pennsyl- 
vania, where the photograph was taken. 
As seen spreading over bushes along the 
outskirts of woods it is highly attrac- 
tive from September until late winter. 
The photograph was taken before the 
chief beauty of the seed pods was dis- 
played. A little later the pods would 
have burst and showed the bright scar- 
let seeds within, and it is the blaze of 
scarlet that makes beautiful the vine at 
that time. 
Rhus typhina is the Stag’s horn 
sumach, famed for its orange red 
foliage in autumn and its red pods of 
seeds at the same time and in early 
winter. What it looks like in winter 
the photograph shows, for it was taken 
after New Year’s, a little snow being 
on the ground at the time. The seed 
pods at that time are quite conspicuous, 
and often are the only thing in leaf or 
fruit in sight in a thicket. It is a great 
favorite with landscape gardeners be- 
cause of its many merits, and is a good 
subject to plant where a thicket is 
wanted, for in time a single bush will 
form one if permitted to do so. 
Our third illustration represents the 
deciduous holly, Prinos verticillatus, 
counted a true holly by some botanists 
who list it as an Ilex. It is an uncom- 
ILEX VERTICILLATA. 
Deciduous Holly. 
