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advantages are the evanescence of its blossoms and its brief flowering 

 season. The berries, however, are abundant, and are of a pretty Ught 

 reddish-orange colour. 



Hairy Yellow-flowered Honey-suckle. — Louicera /lirsiita, (Eaton.) 



This is a large, robust species ; the leaves large, ovate, and downy 

 underneath ; the upper pair perfoliate, forming a boat-shaped involucre 

 to the large, hairy, honey-coloured clusters of flowers, which are terminal. 

 The stem of this rather handsome but coarse species is woody, branching 

 and slightly twining ; the hairy, yellow trumpet-shaped flowers exude a 

 clammy, sweet dew, which attracts numbers of flies which hover about 

 them, with those honey-loving vagrants the Humming-birds. This 

 species is chiefly found in open copses and on rocky islands. There 

 are several other native Honey-suckles. Closely allied to the Loniceras 

 is a pretty flowering shrub known as 



False Honey-suckle — DierviUa trifida^ (Mcench). 



This shrub is often found on upturned roots in the forest, but it 

 also flourishes in more airy situations, as the edge of open, cleared 

 ground in the corners of rail fences, where it has access to sun-light and 

 freer air. It seldom grows higher than two or three feet, forming a low 

 leafy bush ; the leaves oblong, slightly toothed, in opposite pairs : the 

 branches are covered with a smooth, red bark ; the foot-stalks of the 

 leaves are also red : the flowers funnel-shaped ; the slender 

 corolla divided into five lobes, the lower lip trifid. The flowers on 

 slender peduncles, mostly in threes, spring from the axils of the leaves. 

 The small seeds are contained in a hard two-celled, two-valved woody 

 pod The colour of the flowers varies from straw-colour to tawny 

 yellow. Under cultivation the DierviUa increases in size and abundance 

 of the flowers ; it is very hardy and will thrive in sunnier spots than 

 the more delicate Twin-flowered Honeysuckle, which requires shade. 



Snow-herrv. — SympJwricarpus racciiiosus^ (Michx. ) 



Everyone is familiar with that pretty, ornamental garden shrub, the 

 Snow-berry, so often seen in English shrubberies, as well as in our 

 Canadian gardens ; but every admirer of it does not know that it is a 

 native of the Dominion and may be found growing in uncultivated 

 luxuriance on the banks of streams and inland waters, on the rocky 

 banks of rajjid rivers and lonely 'lakes, whose surface has never been 

 ruffled by the keel of the white man's boat, spots known only to the 

 Indian hunter or the adventurous fur-trapper. There, bending its flexile 

 branches to kiss the surface of the still waters, its pure white waxen 



