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Fifty Good Flowering Shrubs for the Garden 
(Continued from page 148) 
be trimmed to a formal shape. The 
following shrubs are kinds that are 
nicely susceptible to the knife and 
shears. 
Box-barberry, as the name suggests, 
is a dwarf horticultural form of Ber- 
beris Thunbergii, resembling somewhat 
Buxus sempervirens. It is beautifully 
adapted to low edgings for the flower 
beds as it is extremely neat and com¬ 
pact and can easily be shaped with the 
shears. 
Hardy orange, citrus trifoliata is one 
of the finest shrubs available for hedge 
purposes. It is not really 01 the citrus 
(orange) family, but of the ponicirus. 
Its branches are green, stout, and cov¬ 
ered with strong thorns, making it at¬ 
tractive even in Winter, and utterly im¬ 
penetrable as a hedge. White flowers 
cluster along its bare branches in early 
Spring. The blossoms are quite large— 
from i]/ 2 " to 2" across and very fra¬ 
grant. The leaves are waxy green. It 
will make an ideal hedge from 24" to 
36" in width an,d from 5' to 7' in height. 
Different sections of the country hiave 
their favorite privets, but Ligustrum 
ibota, is perhaps the most widely used 
variety for hedges. It is the hardiest, 
and is upright in growth and vigorous. 
Buck-thorn,, rhamnus cathartira, is a 
dense growing, thorny shrub, with clus¬ 
ters of white flowers in the Spring 
and clusters of black berries in the 
Fall. It attains a height of 12 ', and is 
splendid for a hedge of fairly bulky 
dimensions. 
Japanese quince, cydonia japonica, 
being a particularly beautiful and showy 
shrub, with its glossy, deep green leaves 
and its brilliant blossoms, is more often 
used as a “specimen” than as a part 
of a mass planting or in a hedge. It 
can, however, be nicely shorn into hedge 
shapes without any particular sacrifice 
to its loveliness. It blooms red in May, 
although the variety C. japonica sul- 
pherea has luscious and less penetrating 
flowers of yellow. 6' is a good height 
to count upon when it is used as a 
hedge plant. 
European horn-bean, carpinus betu- 
lus, is technically a tree, but its habit 
of branching from the stem at the 
ground draws it reluctantly into the 
shrub class. Made into hedges it en¬ 
closes most of the gardens of France. 
It clips nicely and its branches knit 
together to form an effective barrier. 
It grows so large that it should be made 
into hedges that can run to consider¬ 
able size, say from 12 ' to 15 '. It has 
no noticeable flower. Its foliage and 
bark resemble the beech. 
The shrub commonly called sea buck¬ 
thorn has the picturesque name of 
hippophae rhamnoides. Its branches 
are of a nice gray tone when denuded 
of their ieaves, and they are generally 
covered with heavy thorns. The very 
small yellowish flowers appear before 
the leaves. It is a large growing shrub 
and should be used only for tall and wide 
hedges. It stands shearing well and 
makes a closely matted enclosure for 
the garden or grounds. In its natural 
state it will grow to a height of almost 
30'. 
Cockspur thorn, Crataegus crus-galli, 
is used extensively in France, and En¬ 
gland as a hedge plant both in sheared 
and unsheared state. Its small white 
flowers appear after the leaves in late 
Spring and are followed in late Sum¬ 
mer and Fall by bright red berries. It 
will attain a height of 15', but it can 
be kept down to a hedge of more mod¬ 
erate dimensions. 
Russian oleaster, eleagnus angusti- 
folia, is a tall, erect shrub with attrac¬ 
tive silvery green foliage, blooming 
yellow in late Spring and brilliant with 
fruit of the same color in the Fall. 
It is a splendid plant for hedge use 
where a good sized enclosure is re¬ 
quired, as it will grow to a height of 
12' or more. 
Rose of Sharon, hibiscus syriacus, is 
one of the most familiar shrubs in the 
country, yet it is seldom used as a hedge 
plant—a place for which it is perfectly 
adapted. Very often it can be left un¬ 
dipped, as its growth is erect, but 
intelligent trimming will make it more 
compact and prevent an awkard leggi¬ 
ness. It will grow easily to a height 
of 15'. It flowers in mid-summer for 
a considerable period, and its blossoms, 
according to the variety, are white, 
pink, blue, lavender and red. 
SHRUBS FOR SLOPES 
In hillside gardens where there are 
slopes to be covered, the following 
shrubs can be used to splendid advan¬ 
tage. The choice should be determined 
by the length of the slope and the 
character of the garden, for some 
of the shrubs are neat in their habits 
and especially suitable for covering 
small areas, while others are so vigor¬ 
ous and spreading that they would 
soon over-run a small place. 
(Continued on page 152) 
An unusually fine specimen of Japanese 
snow ball, Viburnum tomentosum plenetum, 
shows what a gorgeous mass of bloom 
may be obtained in the shrubbery planting 
