WHITE 



find the first, red, then blackish berries. It is a charming plant, 

 and one is tempted to carry home, for decorative purposes, a few 

 of its long lithe strands. 



LOW BLACKBERRY. DEWBERRY. 



Rubits Canadensis. Rose Family. 



A trailing shrub, armed with scattered prickles or nearly naked ; branches 

 erect or ascending. Leaves. — Divided into three ovate or oval leaflets. 

 Flowers. — With five-parted calyx ; five white petals ; numerous stamens and 

 pistils. Fniit. — Black, edible, delicious. 



The dewberry is found in dry ground, trailing along the 

 roadside, or in dry, perhaps rocky fields. It ripens earlier than 

 the common blackberry. 



MOUNTAIN LAUREL. SPOONWOOD. CALICO-BUSH. 



Kalmia latifolia. Heath Family. 



An evergreen shrub. Leaves. — Oblong; pointed; shining; of a leath- 

 ery texture. Flowers. — White or pink; in terminal clusters. Calyx. — 

 Five-parted. Corolla. — Marked with red ; wheel-shaped; five-lobed ; with 

 ten depressions. Statnens. — Ten ; each anther lodged in one of the depres- 

 sions of the corolla. I^istil. — One. 



The shining green leaves which surround the white or rose- 

 colored flowers of the mountain laurel are familiar to all who 

 have skirted the west shore of the Hudson River, wandered 

 across the hills that lie in its vicinity, or clambered across the 

 mountains of Pennsylvania, where the shrub sometimes grows to 

 a height of thirty feet. Not that these localities limit its range ; 

 for it abounds more or less from Canada to Florida, and far in- 

 land, especially along the mountains, whose sides are often 

 clothed with an apparent mantle of pink snow during the month 

 of June, and whose waste places are, in very truth, made to blos- 

 som like the rose at this season. 



The shrub is highly prized and carefully cultivated in Eng- 

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