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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1914 
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The Variety of Colors in 
Shrub Berries 
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autumn the coloring of these leaves pre¬ 
sents a bewildering confusion of lovely 
colors that add greatly to the wealth of 
the autumn garden. That is another thing 
to study in the planning of a garden—how 
you can get not only shrubs with brilliant 
autumn foliage, but how you can arrange 
this coloring for a harmonious effect. 
The Symplocos cratagoides, with its 
wonderful steel blue berries, is in its prime 
in October. There are about 169 species 
of the Symplocos widely distributed 
through tropical regions, but the Sym¬ 
plocos cratagoides is the only one that is 
hardy North. It is tall and stately. It 
thrives well in any garden, in well-drained 
soil and sunny positions. In the spring it 
has a host of white flowers. 
The Viburnum cassinoides is considered 
the best garden plant among the vibur¬ 
nums. It is an inhabitant of our northern 
swamps, a loose, straggling bush, but, like 
a number of other swamp natives, as soon 
as it is brought into cultivation it takes on 
unsuspected graces and becomes a com¬ 
pact, symmetrical shrub. Its flowers are 
cream white, borne in broad, five-branched 
clusters, and its fruit is as decorative as 
the flowering, fairly covering it with a suc¬ 
cession of lovely color from cream to blue 
before it darkens and withers. 
The black alder, with its scarlet ber¬ 
ries, is a native holly which equals, if it 
does not surpass, in brilliancy and beauty 
of fruit coloring any imported plant of our 
gardens. Yet it is virtually unknown. 
We remember one winter we had armsful 
to decorate our rooms. It attracted con¬ 
tinuous attention, but all the while it was 
a nameless stranger. It is a good sign 
that some of the most exclusive florists are 
beginning to use it among their Christmas 
decorations. In this way many people 
who have passed it by along the roadside 
will come to appreciate it. 
Some people think a winter park or gar¬ 
den must necessarily be a thing of dark, 
uninteresting stems and bare branches, but 
if you are the owner of an unclipt privet 
hedge you know how charming this very 
darkness can be with its hosts of black 
berries and with the dark leaves clinging 
on as long as ever they can. And if you 
are the owner of a barberry hedge you 
know how full of interest your very 
boundary line is at this time of year, 
stretching in a graceful, undulating line at 
the edge of your lawn, a greyish, black¬ 
ish-brown haze in the sunlight, a blacker 
brown in the depths, and yet so dotted and 
spotted with scarlet berries that from a dis¬ 
tance it looks like a line of red. Close by 
the berries are interesting also, oblong in 
shape and crowned with a black spot, the 
remnant of the flower stigma. They hang 
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