CHAPTER VI. 



MAY, JUNE, JULY,. AND AUGUST. 

 Hobble-bush to Phlox. 



Hobble-bash. 



Fiburnuin 



lantanoides 



The hobble-bush is a very familiar 

 object of the summer season in the 

 woods of the White Mountains. On 

 the slopes of Mount Osceola, in Waterville, the bush 

 occupies whole acres of ground, and as a forest under- 



Hobble-bush. 



growth scarcely twenty inches high, its round ovate 

 leaves and hydrangealike flowers form an ideally dec- 

 orative feature of the woods in May. In August the 



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