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Boms and scarlet berries, remaining late in the autumn, or even 

 into the winter. The recent shoots are clothed with an apple- 

 green bark, which, on the large branches, turns to a pearly gray, 

 and, on the older stems, is of a polished and clouded dark color, 

 whence the plant derives its common name." The flowers are 

 white, and not very ornamental. The berries are of a bright 

 scarlet, covering the twigs, the size of peas, in bunches of two or 

 three, and remain long on the bush. The flowers expand in June ; 

 the berries are ripe in September. Planted with the Snowberry 

 and Privet, they would produce a combination of great beauty in 

 the shrubbery. The brilliant scarlet, pure white, and shining 

 black berries, of these three shrubs, would form striking contrasts, 

 and pleasing to the eye. The Black Alder will require a peaty, 

 moist soil. 



Prinos glaber. The Ink Berry. " An elegant, delicate- 

 looking, evergreen shrub, with slender branches, growing in a few 

 sheltered places, in Plymouth and Hingham, to the height of from 

 two to eight or nine feet. The elegance of the evergreen foliage 

 causes it to be much sought after to be mingled with bouquets in 

 winter ; and for this purpose it is brought from considerable dis- 

 tances, and carefully kept in cellars, sometimes for months." 

 The leaves are lance-shaped, an inch or more long, and one third 

 or half an inch wide. 



QUERCUS. 



Oak. Mr. Emerson describes eleven species of Oak in his 

 report on the trees and shrubs of Massachusetts ; but these are a 

 small part of the Oaks indigenous to the United States. " The 

 Oak family, the glory of the woods, and the friend and nurse of 

 our race in its infancy, yields to no others in its importance to 

 niau'cind." Perhaps the White Oak is one of the most valuable 



of the whole tribe : 



" Not a prince, 



In all that proud old world beyond the deep, 

 E'er wore his crown as loftily as he 

 Wears the green coronal of leaves with which 

 Thy hand hath graced him." 



