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HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
HARDY SHRUBS AND SHRUBBERIES 
Shrubs, botanically described, are woody plants, which do not form a 
true trunk, like a tree, but branch out into several stems from or near the 
roots. Many plants of this class produce flowers of exquisite beauty, some 
of which are also delightfully fragrant. There are hundreds of varieties and 
species, some having ornamental and others evergreen' foliage. Some flower 
in the spring, others in summer, some in the fall and a few in the winter ; 
consequently, a proper selection will give a successional display almost the 
entire year. Some shrubs are most beautiful when grown as specimens on 
the lawn, while others are effective when formed into irregular groups, either 
isolated or fringing plantations of trees. Shrubs, aside from their flowering 
and decorative value, relieve lawns and gardens from their hard lines, and 
give the variety of surface form and the light and shade so often lacking. 
One unique feature that shrubs possess over other classes of hardy plants is 
that many of them are brilliantly effective in winter, and a suitable selection 
properly placed will transform 
a doleful landscape into a 
veritable winter garden. The 
conspicuously colored foliage 
of some shrubs is carried well 
into the winter, while others 
retain their rich green leaves 
throughout the winter, nota- 
bly: Rhododendrons, Laurels, 
Mahonia, Box, Laurustinus, 
Hollies, Daphne, etc., which, 
utilized as backgrounds with 
dwarf Coniferte, will bring into 
effective contrast the brilliant - 
berried shrubs such as Flower- 
ing Thorns, Barberries, Holly, 
Sweetbrier and Rugosa Roses, 
Sumach, Snowberries, Coton - 
easter, Sea Buckthorn, Guel- 
der Rose, etc. Associated 
with these could be the win- 
ter-flowering shrubs : Witch 
Hazel, Winter Sweet, Winter 
Honeysuckle, Winter Jasmine, 
Garrya, Andromeda, etc. The 
winter garden might be ren- 
dered more complete by car- 
peting or edging the ground 
with the evergreen - leaved, 
scarlet -fruited Partridge Berry, 
adding a few evergreen hardy 
plants such as Christmas 
Roses, Rockfoils, Evergreen 
Ferns and some of the Alpines. 
