654 VIBURNUM 



thin linear stipules at the base and glands near the leaf-blade. Cymes 2 to 

 3 ins. across, with a border of sterile, showy white flowers, f in. diameter, 

 the centre composed of small fertile flowers; anthers yellow. Fruits bright 

 red, globose, in. wide. It blossoms in early June. 



Native of Europe, including the British Isles. Whilst in beauty of 

 flower the Guelder rose is inferior to many Viburnums, it is inferior to 

 none in this country in its fruits, or in the rich hues of its decaying foliage. 

 Many other species, no doubt, lhave fruits as beautiful, but they do not set 

 them in our gardens with the certainty of this. Of several varieties the 

 most attractive is 



Var. STERILE, De Candolle. The Snowball Tree. In this form all the 

 flowers are of the large sterile kind, and the cyme becomes in consequence 

 transformed into a globose head of white closely packed blossom, 2 to T.\ ins. 

 across. This is one of the most beautiful of hardy shrubs, but of course the 

 fruiting beauty of the common Guelder rose is sacrificed. It is supposed to 

 have originated in the Netherlands, but has been known in English gardens 

 since the sixteenth century, and possibly before. Easily increased by 

 cuttings. There is a rosy-tinted form of it called ROSEUM. 



Var. FRUCTU-LUTEO. Flowers like the type; fruits yellow. 



Var. NANUM. A curious dwarf form of tufted habit, growing I to 3 ft. 

 high. Its leaves are f to \\ ins. wide; so far as I have seen, it never flowers. 



The American form of V. Opulus (V. AMERICANUM, Miller) scarcely 

 differs from the Old World type. Its growth is said to be more vigorous, its 

 leaf-stalks to have a shallower, broader channel and smaller glands, the 

 main-stalk of the inflorescence to be shorter, and the stamens not so long. 



V. SARGENTII, Koehne, which was introduced in 1892 from N. China to 

 Europe through Prof. Sargent, is a close ally to V. Opulus. It is a coarser 

 growing shrub with often larger leaves, a corky bark, purple anthers, and 

 smaller fruit. It is not so useful and well doing a shrub as V. Opulus in 

 Britain, starting earlier into growth, and being subject to injury by spring 

 frosts. In the Arnold Arboretum Mr Rehder says its fruits are not so 

 brilliantly coloured, and are less abundant. 



V. PROPINQUUM, Hemsley. 



An evergreen shrub of bushy habit, with smooth, shining, angular young 

 shoots. Leaves three-veined, ovate-lanceolate to oval, wedge-shaped or 

 rounded at the base, pointed, shallowly and sparsely toothed; 2 to 3^ ins. 

 long, | to ij ins. wide; dark glossy green and smooth; stalk j to f in. "long. 

 Flowers greenish white, \ in. across, all perfect, produced in usually seven- 

 branched cymes r to 3 ins. wide. Fruit blue-black, egg-shaped, \ in. long. 



Native of Central and W. China; discovered by Henry and introduced 

 by Wilson for Messrs Veitch in 1901, and again later. It has lived outside 

 for some years in this country, but whether it will eventually prove quite 

 hardy remains to be seen. It is distinct from all other cultivated Viburnums 

 except V. Daviplii and V. cinnamomifolium in its evergreen three-veined 

 leaves. Those two species have larger more conspicuously veined leaves, 

 which in V. cinnamomifolium are scarcely toothed. 



V. PRUNIFOLIUM, Linncsus, BLACK HAW. 



A deciduous, tall shrub or sometimes a small tree, 20 to 30 ft. high: 

 branchlets rigid, smooth and reddish when young. Leaves smooth, ovate, 

 oval or obovate, sometimes roundish; i^ to 3^ ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide; 

 rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, blunt or short-pointed at the apex; 

 pale below; stalks not or slightly winged, reddish, to f in. long. Flowers 



