Some N a tive 
Through our woods, especially along the 
edges, around low places and swamps, 
along roads and railroad right-of-ways, or 
wherever the trees have been cut down 
for some reason or other, or the ground 
is too rough for cultivation, or neglected 
VIBURNTM LENTAGO. 
for other reasons, we tind an abundance 
of native shrubs, suitable for the decora- 
tion of our home grounds, equal and often 
superior to the horticultural N’arieties. 
Whoever is able to distinguish the dif- 
ferent kinds in their dormant state, may 
collect enough of them for his plantings, if 
time is no object and facilities for trans- 
portation are at hand. Otherwise, they 
may be bought at some of the nurseries; 
especially the ones that are also catering to 
landscape work. 
Of course, one is apt to hear the re- 
mark, “I w’ouldn't have that in my yard, 
it grow's all over the woods.” A remark 
that sounds just as much out of place to 
me as, for instance, ‘T w'ouldn't have such 
and such an article. Why, it was made 
right here in town.” The types of all 
shrubs are native somewhere, and why 
should we despise the ones that grow all 
around us more than the ones that come 
from China or Japan? People who live 
in the suburbs and in the country, and the 
farmer who is wise enough to improve 
his place by the judicious planting of 
shrubs, trees, vines, evergreens and flow- 
ers, be it for the sake of just making his 
place more beautiful or to add to its fu- 
ture value, or for both reasons, will 
achieve better results and create a more 
harmonious effect by using our native 
shrubs and vines. 
PARK AND C E M ET E R Y. 
Shrubs and 
By E. Meyer, Minneal’olis Park Department. 
The nurserymen and landscape arch- 
itects, laying out big country estates, are 
making some use of them, but do not al- 
w'ays use the full collection, probably be- 
cause some of them are rather scarce and 
difficult to procure. This, however, should 
not excuse our nurserymen from having 
them, even if they should have to keep 
their own stock plants to propagate from. 
By using such shrubs for the planting out 
of their own yards and buildings, they 
W'ould give, also, an object lesson to pro- 
spective customers. 
The most common and most widely dis- 
tributed shrub is the meadowrose. It is, 
at the same time, one of the best all around 
shrubs. It thrives in either sunny or 
shady exposures, and in almost pure sand, 
but. of course, it also responds to good 
treatment. In June and July it is loaded 
w'ith pink blossoms two to two and one- 
half inches in diameter, and later in the 
season, and even in the winter, adds a 
touch of color to the landscape with its 
abundant crop of rose-hips and its red 
twigs. 
Another shrub for winter effect is the 
redtwigged dogwood, found in low and 
moist places, also helping consideralfly to 
brighten up the sombre aspect of our tam- 
arack swamps in the winter time. It 
adapts itself to any kind of soil, if not too 
dry, and is often used for hedges, but 
there is other material better adapted to 
this purpose. It is valuable in the shrub- 
bery planting and blooms most all sum- 
mer. Before the last of the flowers have 
disappeared, the white berries already add 
to its decorativeness. 
Almost identical, but of a more upright 
growth, is Bailey’s dogwood. 
More stately and bold in appearance, 
and of a very distinct habit, is the alter- 
nate-leaved dogwood. Its branches are ar- 
ranged in irregular whorls, forming flat, 
horizontally - spreading tiers, especially 
noticeable in winter time. It is equally at- 
tractive, with its white blossoms, and, later 
on, with its metallic blue berries. 
A lower grower, and already, for this 
particular reason, a valuable shrub, is the 
panicled, or gray dogwood, a well shaped 
shrub, with good healthy foliage. It 
thrives in both sunny and shady position, 
is a prolific bloomer and fruit bearer, and 
its white or bluish-white berries are born 
on red stems, forming a rather pretty con- 
trast. 
Further, we have the silky dogwood, 
with purple branches and dark blue berries, 
and the round or big leaved dogwood, 
with light blue berries on light purplish, 
brown or spotted twigs. 
The family of the viburnums furnishes 
us with a considerable number of fine 
shrubs, as. for instance, the well-known 
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Their Uses 
Highbush-Cranberry, with its pretty white 
flowers, its hrilliant red fruit, and its gor- 
geous fall coloring. 
The sheep or nannyberry, and the 
black haw, two similar kinds ; the former 
distinguishes itself by its larger size, larger 
HIGH BT'SH CRANBERRY. 
leaves, and longer pointed end buds, from 
the latter. They are among the most con- 
spicuous shrubs when in bloom. The shiny 
leaves take on a beautiful color in the fall, 
and at the same time the bushes are loaded 
with bunches of big bluish-l)lack berries. 
The Withe Rod has flowers and fruit 
almost like those of the preceding species, 
and is even more useful, being a lower 
grower. The same is true about the 
dockmackie or pursh. It grows in abund- 
ance wherever it has a chance, but is sel- 
dom offered in the trade. 
Less conspicuous for their fall coloring, 
but more so for their fruit and general ap- 
pearance, are the arrow-wood, big arrow- 
wood and hobble bush. 
Our earliest flowering shrub in the 
spring is the redberried elder. In fact, it 
is so early that it suffers from heavy spring 
frosts occasionally, to the detriment of 
the otherwise profuse crop of red showy 
berries, which ripen in June. The com- 
mon elder blooms during the summer and 
fall months, and its immense bunches of 
shiny black berries can often be seen, to- 
gether with late flowers, at the same time 
and on the same bush. 
Probably the most conspicuous and pop- 
ular ornamental shrub when in fruit is the 
wahoo or burning bush. In fact, it is so 
attractive, that it is just as apt to be torn 
to pieces for its fru’t as the lilac hu.-h for 
