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the berries are of varied hues, and as they remain 

 throughout the season are an important means of 

 identification. 



The two common Spireas, the pink Steeple 

 Bush and the white Meadow Sweet, are also way- 

 farers, Steeple Bush choosing wet places, while 

 Meadow Sweet as often hedges tumble - down 

 fences with its fragrant feathery plumes. 



The Red- berried Elder has very graceful, clear-cut 

 compound leaves, ending in sharp points. Its flower - 

 clusters are long, somewhat like small bunches of 

 whitish Lilacs, while those of the Black -berried spe- 

 cies are flat. This Red-berried Elder becomes a 

 conspicuous wayfarer at the time that unfolding 

 Beech leaves hang in velvety limpness and the 

 Hobble Bush or Wayfaring Tree of the smooth, 

 purplish bark is only beginning to reveal the white 

 in the buds that will soon open into flat bunches 

 of flowers, with florets resembling those of the gar- 

 den Snowball. 



Whenever the road divides shady banks, the 

 Maple -leaved Cornel shows its clearly -marked foli- 

 age, that wears such lovely shades of pink in the 

 late Summer and Autumn as to win for the plant 

 a place in the landscape far beyond the deserts of 

 either its inconspicuous white flowers or its black 



