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planted, but I feel that the gain in winter more 
than compensates the small loss in summer. 
For other things will furnish summer flowers, 
even though the continuous shrub bloom is 
given over, but nothing save the certain shrub- 
bery masses selected for it can give to winter 
the warmth and cheer which lie in these. 
The broad-leaved evergreens form one group 
of winter-effect shrubs, but lovely though many 
of its members are, they do not equal in winter 
beauty, in my opinion, the vibrant warmth of 
the barberry’s scarlet fruits, quivering the 
length of every branch, nor of its tangle of 
red-brown twigs; or the great cymes of the 
highbush cranberry which nod aloft defying 
sleet and snow until spring brings forth the 
young leaves to crowd them out of their way; 
or the deep burgundy of the cornel branches 
laced against the snow; or the bright hips and 
glowing color of the wild rose mass. The 
broad-leaved evergreens, too, such as 
rhododendron and laurel and Andromeda, re- 
quire certain soil conditions for successful 
growth, but the shrubs just named will grow 
anywhere practically, in any soil and situation. 
Roses are shrubs of course — but none of the 
hybrid double roses should ever find their way 
into the shrubbery. There are several lovely 
