Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1920 — MAKE WAR ON THE BARBERRY [ARTICLE]

MAKE WAR ON THE BARBERRY

Any Number of Substitutes for Shrub Which Is One of Farmer’s Worst Enemies. Landscape gardeners are recommending substitutes for the common barberry, a host of the black stem rust of wheat which causes enormous losses each year to the wheat crop. Where a purple variety is desired In the shrubbery border, the purpleleaved plum may be substituted, according to P. H. Elwood, Jr., assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Ohio State university. This may also be used as a high background mass or as specimen tree groups on the lawn. The purple hazel may also be used as an accent of color in the shrubbery mass. Many other shrubs can be used where the common barberry has or would have been planted, such as the five-leaved angelica, red-twigged dogwood, pink weigella, winged euonymus, white kerria and high bush cranberry. The common barberry must go, and the sooner we make up our minds to it the better. Root it out, and put something else In its place, and soon its absence will be forgotten.