spreading growth
| | |6 to 8 feet high, and the
| | |masses of dark evergreen
| | |leaves serve admirably as a
| | |setting to the clusters of
| | |orange-coloured blossoms
| | |which are at their best in
| | |May. The purple berries are
| | |very attractive towards the
| | |end of the summer. This
| | |Barberry forms a delightful
| | |lawn shrub, particularly in
| | |a fairly moist soil.
| | |
B. empetrifolia |Chili |Yellow; |A little evergreen bush
| |Spring |less than 2 feet high, and
| | |flowering about the same
| | |time as B. Darwinii. With
| | |this just-named species it
| | |shares the parentage of B.
| | |stenophylla, which is
| | |unsurpassed in the entire
| | |genus.
| | |
B. nepalensis, Syn.|Nepaul |Yellow |The stateliest of the Ash
Mahonia nepalensis | | |Barberries, forming a
| | |specimen 6 feet high, and
| | |regularly furnished with
| | |long compound leaves. It
| | |is, however, tender, except
| | |in the West of England and
| | |Ireland, where, in a moist,
| | |fairly open soil, it does
| | |well. Even there a
| | |sheltered spot should be