In My Garden One of the shrubs that seems to
have found its optimum of conditions this summer is the barberry known as Dictyophyllum. It has grown beyond precedent,, and the whiteness of the bark is the more startling as it grows in front of a birch which it reduces to dinginess. What a beautiful tribe the barberries are, including the wild barberry ; and I have lately, and doubtless belatedly, learnt it is not, as the old Board of Agriculture asserted to its general destruction, the host of rust. in wheat. And how different they are in colour and habit. The strong green corms of Henrii, the squatting stature of Wilsonae, the shining red of Thunbergii (said to be the most popular of all shrubs in the United States), the graceful curves of Stenophylla, are as different as their flowers and berries. If used as a hedge the old Darwinii seems to me still unsur-
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