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and include many species and varieties most valuable 

 for grouping with other shrubs on the lawn. Their 

 appearance is varied. The large-sized flowers of Vi- 

 burnum plicatum, the well-known Japanese form, are 

 much like Viburnum tomentosum, only the latter is 

 more bushy, with less showy flowers, while on the other 

 hand, the native Viburnum acerifolium, Viburnum 

 cassinoides, and Viburnum dentatum are beautiful 

 and valuable for their foliage, but not as much for their 

 flowers, and they are different in almost every way from 

 the Japanese or Chinese kinds, plicatum, dilatatum, and 

 macrocephaltun, while Viburnum lentago and Viburnum 

 lantana are each beautiful in their way. The Viburnum 

 oxycoccus, or opulus, and opulus sterilis have beautiful 

 large white flowers, and in the case of the first, splen- 

 did red fruit in autumn. Viburnum sieboldii — if you 

 have ever seen it, you have beheld the finest of the 

 family. When mature, it is almost a tree, and has 

 splendid large thick glossy foliage not easily described. 

 The flowers are white and grow in more or less erect 

 open clusters, and red berries decorate it in autumn. 

 The little recognized Viburnum prunifolium (black haw 

 or stag bush) comes a close second to the Viburnum 

 sieboldii. Its foliage is glossy and fine and compact 

 and picturesque and the autumn colouring is unsur- 

 passed among shrubs except by the dogwood, androm- 

 eda, and Euonymus alatus. 



And this leads to the consideration of the autumn 

 coloured trees and shrubs. A list of some of them may 

 be of value to induce study of catalogues and botanies 



