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fruiting shrubs, or shrubs with inconspicu¬ 
ous fruit. For all berries grow as mo¬ 
notonous as no berries; there must be 
variety. 
The same Viburnum opulus that I have 
already described and recommended among 
shrubs for general use, is a leader among 
the ornamental fruited shrubs as well, and 
quite worthy of taking first place. But 
close second is its near kin, Viburnum den- 
tatum, the common arrow-wood which 
bears dark blue berries in greatest abun¬ 
dance ; and the Viburnum cassinoides, 
called withered or Appalachian tea, which 
has great thick clusters of berries that are 
first pink but turn gradually to deepest 
blue, all the colors of the transition being 
present at once. 
With these three as a beginning, the 
common barberry must be ranked next; 
and after that, Cornus stolonifera, red 
osier, which has bright crimson bark dur¬ 
ing the winter as well as its bluish-white 
berries to recommend it. Then there is the 
low growing Japanese barberry, Berberis 
Thunbcrgii, and the Japanese rose — Rosa 
rugosa — both with fruits that persist all 
winter and are not eaten by the birds, the 
former like the fruits of the common na¬ 
tive barberry, the latter, great, red hips as 
large as marbles. Of course there are 
many others, too, but these are the choicest, 
to my mind—and the ones most likely to 
succeed just for the planting. 
And now about the planting: how shall 
it be done? And when? And where? Of 
course the plan must answer that last 
query, so if you have not made a plan, 
that is the thing to do first of all. Perhaps 
the diagrams will help you; there is one 
to meet nearly every requirement, and 
there is really no reason why they should 
not be followed exactly, providing the 
place which is to be planted is just what 
they are planned for — that is, sunny or 
shady, according as they are labelled. If 
none of them are large enough, combine 
two or three as suggested and make up as 
large a group as necessary. 
The principle of planting is always to 
frame lawn, of course; and always to keep 
masses of both lawn and shrubbery. There 
should be no scattering of shrubs about 
a lawn; this breaks up the mass of both 
the lawn and the shrubbery. Keep shrubs 
together and lawn intact. Never fill cor¬ 
ners evenly with shrubs, however, in do¬ 
ing this, nor allow them to march around 
the open space in single file or double file 
or any way but just as if they happened to 
grow there naturally, as they happen to 
grow at the edge of a wood or beside the 
road away out in the country. Shrubbery 
must not be handled formally, nor con¬ 
fined to lines of a design as flowers or even 
trees — under some circumstances—may 
be. It simply must be permitted to assume 
the formation which nature gives it. a 
grouping that is characterized by easy, 
careless, close yet flowing, mass. Corners 
filled with ever so lovely a selection of 
shrubs are only absurd caricatures of 
natural planting, and nothing can make 
them anything else. There is no such 
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