PERENNIALS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES : Page 649


Plate XXXVI. The garden designer must always bear in mind that manyof our shrubs which produce very uninteresting flowers are the ones which pro-duce our most attractive fruiting effects. The variation in colours of the fruitsranges from the pure white of the snowberry (A), through the purple andporcelain blue of the beauty fruit (C), to the vivid reds of which the Japanesebush cranberry (B) is typical. For flowers: (D) beauty fruit, (E) snowberry,(F) Japanese bush cranberry. (See page 162, group XX-B)

will lend touches of colour to this mass of green during the summermonths.

Aconitum fischeri Kniphofia pfitzeriMonkshood Red-hot Poker Plant

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