HOUSE AND GARDEN 
292 
November, 1910 
The winterberry or black alder (Ilex verticillata ) makes a brilliant 
show in the winter landscape, yet it is very seldom planted in our 
gardens. The bright red berries remain on the branches until mid¬ 
winter and are not eaten by birds 
The euonymus or spindle tree is also a brilliant spot in a bleak 
winter landscape, with its bright pink fruits remaining on the 
branches long after the leaves fall. Most of the deciduous species, 
except those from the Himalayas, are hardy north 
The Pyracantha is an evergreen thorn of which 
far too little use is made in the winter gar¬ 
den. It is also a good shrub to train against 
a wall. Var. Loelandi is most fruitful 
Winter Cheer 
in 
Berries and Bark 
Photographs by N. R. Graves 
Euonymus Europeans is a species that assumes 
especially brilliant fall coloring. It will grow 
in almost any soil and it is occasionally used 
as a hedge plant 
Our native thorns ( Cratcegus ) 
make small neat trees that are 
particularly well adapted to the 
suburban plot of average size 
T HE impression is far too common that the garden must 
necessarily be a bleak spot after the flowers have gone. 
It is an idea that is entirely erroneous, for there are many small 
trees and shrubs of which it may be said that their flowering 
is only a passing incident, while their fruits have the necessary 
color and stability to brighten the winter landscape after all the 
foliage has gone. A little studied effort in the selection and 
disposition of certain small trees and shrubs that possess beauty 
of berry and bark will go far toward making a garden “a very 
pleasant spot” in 
winter. 
Try grouping to¬ 
gether a few speci¬ 
mens of shrubs of 
berry-bearing charac¬ 
ter, as, for example, 
the bayberry or wax 
myrtle, with its shoots 
thickly clustered with 
wax - like masses of 
fruit, contrasting 
strongly with the 
common barberry with its orange-red berries in rich clusters. 
With these two for the back of our group we could add to 
the foreground that most useful shrub, Thunberg's barberry— 
a shrub having probably more attractions throughout the year 
than any other single specimen. Add to this the snowberry, 
whose great white fruits hang persistently all through the win¬ 
ter, and its red-fruited relative, the Indian currant, and you 
have a group that can be carried out on any scale, according to 
the available space — on the large estate or suburban lot. 
Another g r o u p 
might well be made 
of the viburnums — 
V. prunifolium, which 
grows to the size of 
a respectable tree and 
covers itself with 
deep blue-black ber¬ 
ries; V. opulits, most 
attractive in fruit un¬ 
til hard frost des¬ 
troys the berries; V. 
lantana and V. Sie- 
The common barberry (Berberis vulgaris) is among the better known plants for win¬ 
ter effect, its orange-red berries hanging in rich clusters on the branches through¬ 
out the winter 
