lowering Shrubs 

Are Indispensable in Any Landscape 
There’s a shrub for every purpose. 
Of shrubs with white or cream-col- 
ored flowers there are very many. 
These are some of the best: 
Buttonbush 
Elder 
White Rose of Sharon 
White Common Lilac 
Ninebark 
Hawthorn 
Hydrangea 
Viburnum in var. 
American Juneberry 
Morrow Honeysuckle 
White Hybrid Lilac 
Downy Serviceberry 
Deutzia 
Bridal Wreath and other Spirea 
Jetbead 
White Double-Flowering Almond 
Manchurian Honeysuckle 
Japan Lilac 
Mock Orange 
Many shrubs have lovely pink, rose 
or red flowers and the following are 
among the best: 
Tamarisk 
Pink Double-Flowering Almond 
Japanese Quince 
Tatarian and Oriental Honey- 
suckles 
Swamp Rose 
Froebel Spirea 
Double-Flowering Plum 
Rose of Sharon 
Rose-Flowered Weigela 
Sweetbrier Rose 
Pink Rugosa Rose 
Anthony Waterer Spirea 
Hybrid Lilacs 
Weigela, Eva Rathke 
Prairie Rose 
Beauty Bush 
Not so many shrubs have lavender, 
blue and purple flowers, yet there 
are some very fine ones, such as: 
Common Lilac 
Rose of Sharon 
Hybrid Lilac 
Matrimony Vine 
Chinese Lilac 
There are many shrubs with beaut- 
iful yellow flowers, as, for instance: 
Fly Honeysuckle 
Siberian Pea Tree 
Cornelian Cherry 
Forsythia 
Witch Hazel 
Double-Flowering Kerria 
Golden St. Johnswort 
The fruit-bearing shrubs are not only 
very effective for their decorative 
value in the landscape, but they are 
also very valuable as a source of 
food for birds in the winter time, and 
should be extensively planted for 
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reason. Among shrubs with 
rose-colored or red fruit, the follow- 
ing varieties are fine: 
American Bittersweet 
Hawthorn 
Bush Honeysuckle 
Elder 
Coralberry 
Winged Euonymus 
Japanese Barberry 
Cranberry Bush 
Cornelian Cherry 
European Burning Bush 
Red Chokeberry 
Christmasberry 
Of shrubs with blue or purplish black 
fruits, the following varieties are best 
known: 
Buckthorn 
Siebold Viburnum 
Juneberry 
Peking Cotoneaster 
Glossy Buckthorn 
Arrow-wood 
Kerria 
Privets 
Elder 
Kentucky Viburnum 
A few shrubs have white or yellow 
fruit. Of these the following are very 
desirable: 
Russian Olive 
Manchurian Honeysuckle 
Snowberry 
Coral Dogwood 
Gray Dogwood 
