HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1914 
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clusters. Of these bushes, the red¬ 
stemmed dogwood needs to be grown in 
masses in a park, to be effective, but 
the others can well be grouped in a 
garden shrubbery, and are especially 
valuable if you want an effective dis¬ 
play in September, for most of them do 
not stay on long after that. In October 
the red chokeberries are especially bril¬ 
liant and abundant, and so are the va¬ 
rious haws. If you want berries that 
stay on all winter, there are the Japan¬ 
ese barberries that are just as bright 
when next year’s leaves appear as they 
are in the fall. The dull black berries of 
the privet, too, after a winter's wear, 
stay on to look decorative amid the 
new spring green, while the shiny black fruit of the Rhodotypos 
often makes it a point to outstay its welcome long after the new 
fruit has appeared. 
Among the shrubs which we illustrate, the snowberry is at its 
whitest in September and October before the later rains and 
frosts brown and bedraggle it. The snowberry is a familiar and 
graceful old garden favorite, with the most conspicuous of the 
white berries. Its family name is Symphoricarpos, fruit-grown 
together, and the name well characterizes the habits of its ber¬ 
ries, all huddled together close to their twigs. Another attraction 
is their various sizes, ranging from peas to marbles, and often 
tipped with a late wee pink flower. In July the small, pink 
flowers are insignificant, what you would call decidedly plain¬ 
looking, and yet all the while they have the power of transform¬ 
ing themselves into this beautiful white fruit. In our park the 
snowberries are planted with stretches of Indian currants or coral- 
berries. In a garden this combination can well be used for an in¬ 
formal hedge or wherever shrubs with delicate, wand-like stems 
are needed. 
The Indian currants keep their leaves much later than the snow- 
berries, curiously poised as if for flight. Their coral berries are 
most attractive after the leaves fall, sometimes all crimson, and 
then again the palest coral pink, and so full and crowded that 
they surround the stem. 
The photograph of the matrimony vine in the tall pitcher with 
the flaring top does not really do it justice, but we have included 
it to call attention to its varied useful¬ 
ness in planting. It is a shrub that can 
be used along city streets between the 
sidewalks and the roadbed. It can be 
trained to cover walls and fences, to 
climb over pergolas and arbors, to hang 
over terrace slopes and bridges. In Sep¬ 
tember its abundant and beautiful 
translucent red berries, like great drop 
pearls in shape, divide honors with be¬ 
lated butterfly flowers of violet and 
purple, but later they hold undisputed 
sway among the good, deep-green fo¬ 
liage. 
The fruit in the Dutch turf pot is 
cultivated bitter-sweet that has been 
planted over the rough, stone walls so 
characteristic of the low hills in Connecticut. So much can be 
done to make even the smallest back yard interesting by planting 
vines like the woodbine, with its clusters of dull black fruit; 
honeysuckle, with its 
shiniest and roundest 
of black berries; the 
matrimony that we 
have just mentioned; 
the grape, with its 
beautiful blue fruit; 
trailing roses like the 
Wichuriana, with its 
charming clusters of 
small red hips, or our 
o w 11 native .climbing 
rose, with its larger 
fruit that stays fresh¬ 
looking well into the 
winter. It is our only 
native climbing rose. 
You can distinguish it 
from our other native 
roses not only by its 
trailing stems, but by 
its three leaflets. In The scarlet berries of the black alder are silhou- 
( Cont. on page 312) etted solitary on their tiny stems 
In October the snowberry is at its whitest, though in July its 
pink flowers are quite plain-looking. It is effective when 
planted with Indian currant 
Bitter-sweet, with its yellow-orange capsules and 
crimson seed, is always a favorite 
The branches of Regel’s privet have decorative pos 
sibilities both inside and outside the house 
