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no doubt it will flourish in any garden loam, and is prop- 

 agated 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. : Y. dentatum, nudum^ acerifolmm^ etc. 



V. lantanoides. — Wayfaring Tree, Hobble Bush. — This 

 fine native plant " received its specific name, lantanoides^ 

 from its resemblance to the English Wayfaring Tree, 

 Fi lantana^ the tree which Wilham addresses, when he 

 says : — 



' Wayfaring Tree ! what ancient claim 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant nanie ? 

 ***** 



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." * * * u 'pj^^ leaves are from four to six 

 inches in length and breadth, roundish, heart-shaped at 

 base, ending in a short, abrupt point, and unequally ser- 

 rate on the margin. They are smooth above, but beneath 

 downy on the veins, which are thereby rendered striking- 

 ly distinct. * * -^ q^he fruit is ovate, large, of bright 

 crimson color, turning afterwards almost black." — [Emer- 

 son.) 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 coun- 

 try. It is certainly worthy of a place in every collection 

 of shrubs. It will no doubt succeed with the same treat- 



