HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
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the summer which is very delightful. Its 
period of actual blossom is very early, 
being before the leaves in March or April. 
The blossoms are a delicate pinkish lilac, 
small but produced in sufficient numbers to 
make up for their modesty. 
In the supplementary list there is first 
the forsythia, familiar to all of us in the 
spring before anything else is awake, with 
the little yellow blossoms strewn along 
every branch away down to the very 
ground. It fairly blazes with the spring 
message of warm, golden life, and lights 
up every corner or spot where it is planted 
with delightful brilliance. It is always 
best to put this in the midst of other shrub¬ 
bery, for its early bloom is seen quite as 
well when it is so placed; and after it has 
finished its riot of glory, it furnishes a 
fine background for other lower growing 
shrubs to spread their branches against. 
This is not to say, however, that it lacks 
effectiveness when placed in the very front 
of a mass; but only rarely should it be 
used thus, the better place for it being 
within the group. Its height also favors 
its use here. 
Deutzia Lemoinei is the most showy of 
deutzias, but a pink form is perhaps to be 
preferred, for there is always an abun¬ 
dance of white in shrubbery and when it 
is possible to do so, it is well to choose 
something else. So Deutzia gracilis ?osea 
may be used instead, for this has pinkish 
flowers. Lonicera Tatarica, Tartarian 
honeysuckle, also has pinkish flowers; and 
the Missouri currant, Ribes aureum, has 
delightfully spicy little yellow flowers. 
Finally, there is the common barberry, 
Berberis vulgaris, which droops under its 
weight of scarlet berries through all the 
fall and a goodly portion of the winter, 
and which colors wonderfully in the 
autumn. The small yellow flowers of this 
are not conspicuously in evidence when it 
is in bloom, yet they are attractive and not 
the least of its charms, for there are a 
great many of them, ranged along the 
branches like little bells ready to chime to 
every passing breeze. 
_ Of special shrubs there are two divi¬ 
sions: the evergreen species such as laurel, 
rhododendron, andromeda and the like, 
and the shrubs so much used for winter 
effect because of their decorative berries. 
The latter are as suitable to all sorts of 
places as those which we have already con¬ 
sidered under the general utility heading, 
but the broad leaved evergreens require 
special conditions and special treatment 
which I shall not attempt to go into here. 
If you wish to make use of these, study 
the problems concerning them first, and be 
quite sure tint you have the proper condi¬ 
tions and soil for their healthy and suc¬ 
cessful growth. 
Berry bearing shrubs are seldom con¬ 
spicuous in flower; so it is hardly pos¬ 
sible to secure winter effect and summer 
effect in equal proportions from a single 
group. . Berry bearing shrubs by them¬ 
selves, in large masses which show noth¬ 
ing else, are not as attractive as a mingling 
of them with a suitable number of non- 
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