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An Amazing Value 
This Attractive 
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$1.00 
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Fifty Good Flowering Shrubs for the Garden 
(Continued from page 152) 
here will be sure to make its presence 
felt in the early Spring with its bril¬ 
liant blooms. It will grow to a height 
of 3' or more and, after its flowering 
season, present an excellent mass of 
substantial foliage. 
FOR INDIVIDUAL ACCENTS 
For accents and formal touches in 
the garden the following shrubs, be¬ 
cause of their definite and more or less 
regular outlines and compact habits of 
growth, will be found effective. 
There is probably no more deservedly 
popular shrub than Thunberg’s bar¬ 
berry, Berberis Thunbergii. Its well 
rounded shape, its attractive foliage 
and its colorful aspect in the Fall and 
Winter, when it is covered with bright 
red berries, make it especially desirable 
as a plant to serve as an accent at the 
intersection of paths, or for any other 
similar situation in the garden. It is 
one of the few shrubs which will stand 
pruning to a smoothly regular shape, 
so that its height can be controlled. It 
will grow naturally from 3' to 5'. 
Corkbarked euonymous, euonymous 
alatus, is an interesting looking shrub, 
erect and formal in growth; suitable 
for placing on either side of a gateway 
or arbor. It is one of the most bril¬ 
liantly colored shrubs in the Fall, its 
foliage turning a burning scarlet to 
match its bright red berries. 
Dwarf mock orange, philadelphus 
microphyllus, has the same character¬ 
istics of flower and scent as the larger 
growing and more familiar types, but it 
is much more graceful and compact and 
rarely attains a height over 4'. It 
blooms in June and July. 
White kerria, rhodotypos kerrioides, 
is flecked with pure white flowers in 
the Spring and carries shiny black, 
ornamental berries, throughout the 
Summer among its fine leaves. It will 
grow into a well-rounded, compact 
bush about 5' in height and spread. 
The flowers of the shrub stewartia, 
stewartia pentagyna, are cup-shaped 
and camelia-colored, the largest blos¬ 
soms of any of the shrubs, being 2" 
to 3 " in diameter. They bloom in 
July and August and make at that time 
an unrivalled show. The plant should 
be given plenty of space in which to de¬ 
velop as it will grow from 6' to 12' in 
height. 
Snowberry, symphoricarpos racemosus, 
of the catalogs, is more famous for its 
fruit than its flowers. The berries, as 
the name indicates, are snow-white and 
cluster among its attractive leaves from 
early Summer until frost. The flowers 
are pinkish and somewhat inconspic¬ 
uous. The shape of the bush is nicely 
designed for its use in formal situa¬ 
tions. It grows to a height of about 3'. 
The French hybrid lilacs are perhaps 
the most suitable of the type syringa 
to use within the garden, not only be¬ 
cause of the neat, compact habit of 
growth but because of the wide variety 
obtainable in the matter of bloom. The 
colors range from white, through the 
pinks, lavenders, and light blues, to 
deep purple. They bloom in the Spring 
and reach a height of 8' to 10'. It is 
wise to prune them immediately after 
flowering, as they form their next 
season’s buds at that time. 
The flowering almond, primus amy- 
gadlus comunis, covered with its white 
flowers, is one of the finest Spring 
blooming shrubs. It will grow to a 
height of 6' or more, but its shape is 
always regular, and suitable for formal 
touches in the garden, especially at 
either side of the entrance gateway. 
Bouvardia shrub is a dwarf form of 
the viburnum family, V. carlesii, com¬ 
pact in its habit of growth and growing 
to a height of not more than 3’ or 4'. 
In late Spring it is filled with fragrant 
purplish-white flowers that last over 
a long period. 
One of the best of the hydrangeas 
for formal use in the garden is H. 
arborescens. It forms a well rounded 
bush of excellent foliage, and is cov¬ 
ered in mid-summer with large heads 
of pure white flowers. It can be kept 
at almost any height under 8'. Its 
only fault is that it is not particularly 
attractive after its leaves have fallen. 
SHRUB GROUPING 
Next to choosing the right shrub for 
the right place the important thing is 
to see that it fits smoothly into its 
environment and that it is handled in 
the best possible way for the effective¬ 
ness of the planting as a whole. For 
instance, in the first of the uses out¬ 
lined above—that of mass planting, the 
individual shrub should be subordinated 
to the complete grouping. There are 
two ways in which this desirable end 
may be attained. The shrubs should 
be so located in the grouping that all 
the varieties will merge into each other, 
both in the matter of size and habit 
of growth. Low growing shrubs like 
the various deutzias, for example, 
should not be set against tall growing 
sorts like the pearl bush. Nor should 
a clump of drooping plants like For- 
sythia suspensa be placed beside a 
clump of perpendicular growing altheas. 
All these shrubs may be combined in 
the same mass, if it is large enough, 
but the transitions between them 
should be made by other shrubs. The 
various clumps of one variety should 
also be planted in such irregularly 
shaped drifts that the grouping as a 
whole will not seem mechanically and 
geometrically arranged. Another thing 
that destroys the effectiveness of shrub 
masses is the practice of pruning the 
individual shrubs to a smoothly 
rounded shape. When pruning is done 
in groupings of this kind it should be 
done with the thought of the whole 
plantation in mind, remembering 
always that every massing of shrubs 
is essentially a naturalistic device and 
that its appearance cannot be authen¬ 
tic or completely pleasing when it is 
in any way too obviously artificial. 
It is possible to effect a decided 
change in the character of a slope by 
planting it with shrubs. In some situa¬ 
tions it is desirable to give the slope 
the appearance of being steeper than 
it actually is. This can very readily 
be accomplished by using the lower 
growing varieties at the foot of the 
slope and working toward the top with 
those which attain a greater height. 
When the reverse effect is wanted the 
scheme of planting is simply changed 
about. On many slopes, especially on 
those within the garden, it is generally 
more impressive, as well as more appro¬ 
priate, to use only one variety than 
to get a mixture of textures and colors. 
