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Title: The livable house, its garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dean, Ruth. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tum, tomentosum, and Carlesii, which has awonderfully fragrant flower; the honeysuckles, Indian currant,and snowberry; ilex Sieboldii (a little known but very brilliantberried shrub) ; and the red stemmed dogwoods. Of these, ber-beris vulgaris, all the viburnums, the honeysuckles, and dogwoodsgrow to be big shrubs and ought therefore to be planted wherethey will not interfere with windows. Another shrub with animpossible name but with the unusual possession of turquoise col-ored berries is Symplocos Crataegoides. Its berries ripen at thesame time as those of the Tartarian honeysuckle, and the twoshrubs make a brilliant combination. Most of these shrubs haveattractive flowers as well as berries, and thus provide at the sametime for the summer and winter appearance of the base planting.A few shrubs interesting chiefly for their summer dress do notcome amiss in any group near the house, and some of them lookespecially well with the dark foliage of evergreens: lilacs, white (54) t s G a n
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