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commonly cultivated species, but they are rather larger, 

 and of a purer white. It is a decidedly ornamental shrub, 

 of easy growth in any good soil and where not exposed to 

 cold winds. This has been referred to as V. tomentosum 

 by some writers. 



V. PRUNIFOLIUM, New England to Carolina, 1731, with 

 Plum-like leaves, and pretty white flowers, is another free- 

 growing and beautiful North American species. 



V. PYRIFOLIUM. Pear-leaved Viburnum. Pennsylvania 

 to New Jersey, 1812. This is a rarely seen, but very 

 ornamental species, with oval-shaped, finely-toothed leaves 

 that are borne on short, slightly-winged stalks about half 

 an inch long. Flowers sweetly scented, white, and in 

 broad corymbs, the feathery appearance of the long, 

 projecting stamens, each tipped with a golden anther, adding 

 considerably to the beauty of the flowers. 



V. BHYTIDOPHYLLUM. This is a new Wayfaring Tree, 

 which has been introduced by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 

 Chelsea, from China. It is of bold habit of growth with 

 large leaves entirely different from anything we have seen 

 before. They are opposite, oblong, 4 inches to 8 inches 

 in length, and 2 inches to 3 inches in width, very much 

 wrinkled, dark green and shining above. The under-surface 

 is covered with a rusty grey tomentum. The flowers are 

 produced in large flattened bunches terminating the stems 

 and give rise to berries that are first red, then black 

 and shining. A plant about 7 feet high and 6 feet wide 

 was shown by the above firm, and received a first-class 

 certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. 



V. SIEBOLDI (syn V. reticulatum), from Japan, is a worthy 

 species with opposite dark-green leaves and freely-pro- 

 duced flowers. 



V. TINUS. Laurustinus. South Europe, 1596. So 

 commonly cultivated a shrub needs no description here, 

 sufficient to say that the handsome evergreen foliage and 

 pretty pinky-white flowers assign to it a first position 



