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on as hardy enough to withstand our most severe winters. 

 It has very large heads or panicles of white neutral flowers. 

 Against a sunny wall and in a cosy nook it may occasion- 

 ally be found doing fairly well, but it is not to be generally 

 recommended. 



V. NUDTJM. American Withe Rod. Canada to Georgia, 

 1752. This is also worthy of being included in a selection 

 of these shrubs. 



V. OPULUS. Guelder Rose. A native shrub of great 

 beauty, whether in foliage, flower, or fruit. The leaves are 

 variously lobed or deeply toothed, large and handsome, and 

 the flower heads of good size, flat, and composed of a 

 number of small flowers, the outer only being sterile. 

 Individually the flowers are dull and inconspicuous, 

 but being produced in amazing quantity they have a very 

 pleasing and effective appearance. The great bunches of 

 clear pinky berries render a fair-sized plant particularly 

 handsome and attractive, and for which alone, as also 

 beauty of autumnal foliage, the shrub is well worthy of 

 extensive culture. It grows fully 15 feet high, and may 

 frequently be seen as much through. V. Opulus sterilis 

 (Snowball Tree) is one of the commonest occupants of our 

 shrubberies, and a decidedly ornamental flowering shrub. 

 The large, almost globular flower heads hanging from every 

 branch tip are too well known to require description, and 

 have made the shrub one of the most popular in ornamental 

 planting. 



V. PAUCTFLORUM is a native of cold, moist woods from 

 Labrador to Alaska, and may best be described as a minia- 

 ture V. Opulus. It rarely grows more than 4 feet high, 

 with small cymes of flowers, that are devoid of the neutral 

 flowers of that species. 



V. PLICATUM, from Japan, 1846, is another very beauti- 

 ful and desirable shrub, of rather dwarf, spreading growth, 

 and having the leaves deeply wrinkled, plaited, and serrated 

 on the margins. The flowers resemble those of the 



