Shrubs and Vines 



Symphoricarpus contains two species of small shrubs 

 whose white and red berries, respectively, have given 

 them the names of snow-berry and coral-berry. They 

 are delicately foliaged, and produce small but very 

 pretty pinkish flowers in mid-summer. The snow-berry 

 has fewer but much larger and handsomer berries than 

 the coral -berry, in which they are dull red and crowded 

 on the stems. Both grow wild in our territory, but are 

 chiefly seen in cultivation. 



Antedating the flowering of the forsythia by at least 

 two weeks is a plant which, in its type and color of 

 blossom, might easily be mistaken for it — the early- 

 flowering jasmine (^/asminum nudifloruni) from China, 

 very conspicuous in its solitary bloom. Being a pros- 

 trate shrub, it verges on the vine, and can be effec- 

 tively massed in an upright position against the house, 

 where it shows with fine effect. The later appearing 

 leaves are trifoliate. It is on the east side of the 

 '< Ramble." 



Allied to our angelica-tree is a thorny shrub from 

 China {Aralia chinensis), of lower growth, and with 

 minute differences that indicate diverse origin. This is 

 in the Park, with another {A. pentaphylla)^ from Japan, 

 whose leaf is palmate with five leaflets. Both may need 

 slight protection in winter. 



The Chinese chestnut, so called {Xanthoceras sorbifo- 

 iia), found in the Park, is but little cultivated as yet in 

 this country. It is very showy in bloom, producing an 

 abundance of long clusters of white flowers, and the 

 compound leaves are not unlike those of the mountain- 

 ash. Not being especially tender, and of graceful figure, 



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