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no doubt it will flourish in any garden loam, and is prop- 

 agated the same as the Snowball. 



We have a number of other species, which would well 

 repay cultivation. Most of them would require the same 

 treatment as the Azalea, and that class of plants, as they 

 are found in swamps and woods. Some of them are very 

 beautiful, viz. : V. dentatum, nudum, acerifolium, etc. 



V, lantanoides. Wayfaring Tree, Hobble Bush. This 

 fine native plant " received its specific name, lantanoides^ 

 from its resemblance to the English Wayfaring Tree, 

 V. lantana, the tree which William addresses, when he 



' Wayfaring Tree ! what ancient claim 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant name ? 



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Whate'er it be, I love it well, 

 A name, methinks, that surely fell 

 From poet, in some evening dell, 

 Wandering with fancies sweet.' 



" That tree rises to the height of eighteen or twenty 

 feet, and has an ample head of white flowers. Ours, less 

 fortunate in its name, is a stout, low bush, found in dark, 

 rocky woods, and making a show, in such solitary places, 

 of a broad head of flowers, the marginal ones often an inch 

 across." * * ' * " The leaves are from four to six 

 inches in length and breadth, roundish, heart-shaped at 

 base, ending in a short, abrupt point, and unequally ser- 

 rate on the margin. They are smooth above, but beneath 

 downy on the veins, which are thereby rendered striking- 

 ly distinct. * * * The fruit is ovate, large, of bright 

 crimson color, turning afterwards almost black." (Emer- 

 son.} The first time we beheld this crooked, straggling 

 shrub, in flower, in its native haunts, a dark swamp, we 

 thought it one of the most ornamental shrubs of the coun- 

 try. It is certainly worthy of a place in every collection 

 of shrubs. It will no doubt succeed with the same treat- 



