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gardens, and is truly one of the most ornamental shrubs or low 

 trees known. It is suited either to mass with other deciduous 

 plants or for grouping with low evergreens, or as a single plant. 

 Its large clusters of white flowers early in May, and large, broad 

 foliage, which toward autumn changes to a bright red, make it 

 always handsome. There is a double-flowering variety, and 

 several with variously shaped foliage ; the lantana-leaved 



FIG. 63. SILVER BELL. 



lantanoides being the best. The high bush cranberry vibur- 

 num oxycoccns is less ornamental in its flowers, but is more so 

 in its fruit; and besides, it may be made to serve economically in 

 the use of the fruit as a substitute for cranberries, while it fills a 



