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S UPERIOR in every way to any 
raspberry under cultivation; abso¬ 
lutely hardy everywhere; free from 
disease; most prolific, producing from 
June until heavy frost continuously, 
strong branches loaded with immense 
clusters of luscious, meaty, large 
berries, of the finest aroma and con¬ 
taining but few seeds. 
Awarded medals and certificates by 
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Societies, including the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, Horticultural 
Society of New York, The 
American Institute of New 
York, etc., etc. 
The plants we send out aver¬ 
age three to four feet in height. 
1 he wood is at least a half inch 
thick, and on the clump of 
roots, several suckers may be 
found. They will bear fruit 
the first season planted, and 
they multiply rapidly 
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ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER RASPBERRIES OR FRUITS 
Fifty Good Flowering Shrubs for the Garden 
(Continued from page 150) 
Shrub yellow-root, zanthorhiza api- 
ifolia, is a colorful, usually low-growing 
shrub for the purpose. Its flowers, 
blooming in April, are small and pur¬ 
plish. The foliage is handsomely cut 
and turns a brilliant orange in the Fall. 
The stems remain a warm yellow 
throughout the year. 
A loosely growing type of barberry, 
berberis vulgarus lutea, is a welcome 
variation from the more commonly 
used varieties. Its foliage and incon¬ 
spicuous flowers are similar to the 
familiar berberis Thunbergii, but is 
more spreading in habit, and its ber¬ 
ries in late Summer - and Fall are a 
delightful golden color. It will grow 
to 6'. 
A bank covered with weeping golden 
bell, forsythia Fortuneii suspensa, pre¬ 
sents one of the most thrilling sights of 
early Spring when its branches are 
crowded with yellow flowers. While 
its stems become quite lengthy they run 
horizontally and the mass of the shrub 
rarely reaches a height of more than 
4' or 5'. 
Similar in many ways is Jasmine 
nudiflorum, though it hugs the ground 
rather more closely than the forsythia. 
Its flowers are pale yellow and flower 
before the leaves appear, often before 
any other flower in the garden. Its 
branches are a bright green, so that its 
Winter aspect is constantly cheerful. 
Being essentially a trailing plant it 
seldom rises more than 2' above the 
ground. 
Coral berry, callicarpia purpurea, is 
a splendid plant to mass over a slope 
where its beautiful violet-colored ber¬ 
ries can be seen and appreciated in the 
Autumn. Its late Spring flowers are 
pinkish and somewhat inconspicuous. 
It grows to a height of 4'. 
Bittersweet, celastrus scandens, is 
very often listed as a vine, hut it is 
such a robust grower and takes on, 
such shrub-like characteristics that it 
may well be included here. It has 
been known to be vigorous to the point 
of being destructive, reaching out its 
grasping tentacle-like branches and 
actually pulling down young poplars 
within its grasp. A few plants will 
cover a large bank very quickly. To¬ 
ward Fall it carries brilliant yellow- 
orange berries. 
Desmodium, desmodium pcnduli- 
florum, is filled with drooping sprays 
of rosy-purple flowers late in the Sum¬ 
mer, and forms a fine, colorful ground 
cover. Some of its spreading branches 
will attain a height of 5' or more. 
The chief characteristic of bayberry, 
myrica cerifera, is its waxy gray fruit 
which hang along its branches in the 
Fall and which can be boiled down 
into a substance for making candles. 
Its leaves are gray-green in. Summer 
and turn a purplish bronze in the Fall. 
It is especially valuable for covering 
slopes of poor or sandy soil. It will 
grow to a height of S' or more. 
Matrimony vine, Lycium chinense, 
has purple flowers in late Summer and 
brilliant red fruit in the Fall. It is 
extremely spreading in habit and will 
form a low well-knit matting to prevent 
any washing out during heavy rains or 
violent thaws. 
Shrubby honeysuckle, diervilla sessi- 
folia, is much heavier and larger flow¬ 
ered than, the honeysuckle vine. Its 
blossoms in June and July are from 
pink to crimson. Spreading in habit, 
it rarely reaches a height of more than, 
4 '. 
SHRUBS FOR FLOWER BORDERS 
To give the herbaceous border greater 
stability and more permanence of foli¬ 
age and color, some of the smaller 
flowering shrubs, such as the ten listed 
below, may be used. Most of them, 
because of their size, will have to be 
placed at the back of the beds, where 
they will serve admirably as a back¬ 
ground. Others, like the deutzia and 
the summer-flowering spirea, can be 
used toward the front. 
Sweet pepper bush, or clethra alni- 
folia, when it is used in the herbaceous 
border, should be set in a background 
corner, against a wall or hedge, for, if 
it finds itself in the right sort of moist, 
peaty or sandy soil, it is apt to do 
some rather vigorous growing. It will 
never exceed 8', however, and will 
generally range from 4 ' to s'- Its 
flowers, which bloom from July to Sep¬ 
tember, hang gracefully in long pani¬ 
cles from arching, drooping stems. 
They are white in the type, but there 
is a lovely pink variety, rubra. 
The dwarf deutzia, deutzia gracilis, 
is not the only member of the deutzia 
family which is suited ideally for the 
herbaceous border, but it is typical of 
the smaller varieties. This shrub 
never attains a height of more than 
3', and it can be used among Canter¬ 
bury bells, pyrethrum and iris with fine 
effect. Its flowers, blooming in May 
and June, are white, but in other vari¬ 
eties there are pink ones and some are 
white and lavender. 
Mint shrub, elscholtzia Stauntonii, is 
an especially appropriate shrub for the 
herbaceous border in the garden, not 
only because it is somewhat herbaceous 
appearing but because it offers a splen¬ 
did mass of lilac-purple bloom from 
September to frost. Its leaves are 
usually aromatic, its flowers appear in 
dense spikes from 4" to 8" long, and 
its average height is 3'. 
A small shrub blooming yellow in 
July and August, erect in habit, is 
Dyer's greenweed, genista tinctoria, 
suitable for the middle ground of the 
herbaceous border, where its maximum 
height of 3' will be effective. 
There must be a dozen or more 
varieties of Shrubby St. John’s Wort 
which would be equally invaluable for 
shady places in the herbaceous border. 
Most of them range in height from 12" 
to 3'. Hypericum aureurn is perhaps 
typical of the family. It has large yel¬ 
low flowers that bloom in July and 
August. 
Another yellow blooming shrub, suit¬ 
able for the background of the herba¬ 
ceous border and for the foreground 
of a shrubbery grouping, is Japanese 
rose, kerria japonica, which flowers from 
June until frost. It is one of the love¬ 
liest of shrubs. Its branches are grace¬ 
ful and perpetually green, and its 
foliage is finely cut and fluttering. It 
will grow - to a height of 5'. 
One of the nicest of the summer¬ 
flowering spireas is the rose-pink va¬ 
riety, Spiraea Bumaldi Anthony Wat- 
erer, which, like most of its immediate 
family, clusters beautifully among the 
perennials. It blooms in late Summer, 
and grows to a height of 2' or so. 
The flowers of stephanandra, ste- 
phanandra flexuosa of the catalogs, 
are extremely small, but blossom in 
such profusion that the shrub is a 
mass of white in June. It is a grace¬ 
ful plant, growing to a height of 4' 
to s', and should be placed in the 
background of the perennial border. 
South of Baltimore, bush arbutus, or 
abelia grandiflora, is almost evergreen. 
It is covered with small rosy-pink 
flowers from late Summer until frost, 
and grows normally to a height of 4'. 
The Ghent azaleas, especially the 
clear yellow-blossoming A. pontica 
Nancy Waterer, deserves a place in the 
herbaceous border. The one named 
(Continued on page 154) 
