November, 1910 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
293 
The Snowberry or waxberry ( Symphoricarpos racemesus) gives a gor¬ 
geous display of brilliant white fruits that hang persistently to the 
branches all through the winter. Plant it in front of the common 
barberry for color contrast 
Among the trees that help to give variety and tone to the winter 
landscape is the larch, with its numberless cones. Unfortunately 
the tree is troubled by several enemies. The most beautiful of the 
species is Larix leptolepis, whose fall foliage is bright yellow 
The Indian current ( Symphoricar¬ 
pos vulgaris) is a red-fruited 
relative of the snowberry, but 
having a more compact form 
AS SELECTED 
BY 
ARTHUR HERRINGTON 
Landscape architect 
Our native holly {Ilex opaca) is entirely worthy 
of the special care needed to get it established 
in the garden. To secure the ornamental fruits 
plant a staminate bush among pistillate ones 
A group of virburnums will improve any win¬ 
ter garden. V. prunifolium, V. opulus, V. 
lantana, V. Sieboldi, V. cassinoides and V. 
aeerifolium are all good varieties 
boldi, with, for the foreground, V. cassinoides and V. acerifol- 
inm, covered with clusters of black berries that hang long after 
the foliage has fallen. 
Our native thorns ( Crataegus ) must not be overlooked for 
their beauty and fruit. They make small neat trees and should 
be far more frequently planted in the small suburban gardens. 
The euonymus or spindle tree is also a brilliant spot when 
smothered with its bright fruits long after the leaves have fallen. 
Ilex verticillata, appropriately named winterberry, makes an¬ 
other brilliant spot of 
color against the 
snow, and our native 
holly, too, is worthy 
of the special care 
needed to establish it 
in the garden. 
The Pyracantha 
is an evergreen thorn 
of which far too lit¬ 
tle use is made by 
gardeners. It will 
train well against a 
wall, making an admirable cover and a brilliant mass of color 
when bearing its great clusters of orange-red berries. 
A few shrubs have bright-colored bark that will help greatly 
to give life and brilliancy to the winter landscape—the birches, 
the red-barked dogwood, the Jew’s mallow, with its bark of a 
deep uniform green that is particularly effective in connection 
with the red-barked dogwood. Then there are the willows—the 
cardinal and the yellow-barked willow. Both are well worth 
growing, and they may be cut down severely so as to bring them 
into scale with the 
small garden. 
In p 1 a n n i n g to 
make your shrubbery 
groups more nearly 
ideal, keep in mind 
this essential princi¬ 
ple : do not let the 
factor of flower bloom 
obscure the necessity 
for some shrubs that 
will prolong the gar¬ 
den into the winter. 
Thunberg’s barberry ( Berberis Thunbergi) , than which there is probably no shrub 
more variably attractive throughout the year. It should by all means be included in 
the all-year garden 
