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fruit. Of the common Viburnums, the Arrow- 

 Wood, with gray branches, white -clustered flowers 

 of the Dogwood type, and blue fruit, shading to 

 black, and the Sweet Viburnum are the most no- 

 ticeable. 



Sweet Viburnum, locally known as Nanny Berry, 

 is an extremely handsome shrub, when left undis- 

 turbed often growing into a tree of twenty -five or 

 thirty feet in height, covered with shining, saw- 

 edged leaves, and in late May topped with a pro- 

 fusion of flat bunches of fragrant, small, white 

 flowers. The growth is very thick and close, the 

 twigs being somewhat spiny, so that Black Thorn 

 is among its local names. 



This habit of growth has been noticed by the 

 thrifty Hungarians who are venturing into Lone- 

 town, and I have seen a chicken pen, fenced by 

 the straight bushes, set a few inches apart and 

 bound together by a couple of strands of copper 

 wire, evidently dropped from the outfit of the 

 long distance telephone company, in some of its 

 wanderings across country. 



The Sweet Viburnum is easily transplanted, and 

 succeeds finely if deep, rich soil is given it, being 

 not only a shrub of great beauty, but an attraction 

 to birds from its edible fruit. In traversing hillside 



