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common Snowball. As it is found growing in uplands, no 

 doubt it will flourish in any garden loam, and propagated 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, &c. 



Viburnum 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 says : 



' Wayfaring Tree ! what ancient claim 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant name ? 

 * * * * * 



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 serrave on the margin. They are smooth above, 

 but beneath downy on the veins, which are thereby rendered 

 strikingly distinct. * * * The fruit is ovate, large, of 

 bright crimson color, turning afterwards almost black." (Em- 

 erson.} 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 country. It is cer- 

 tainly worthy of a place in every collection of shrubs. It will 

 no doubt succeed with the same treatment as the Rhododen- 



