Trees Preferring to Grow in Light or 



Dry Soil: Upland Places, Meadows and 



Roadsides. 



When low upon the meadows adjoining the roadsides hangs 

 a mist so white as to suggest a phantom lake, and the air is 

 chilled tvith a scent of moisture, then the time of the autumn 

 haze has come. Through it dimly can be seen the outlines of 

 trees. Trees at whose bases are soft beds of brown leaves. 

 They have finished their work and their frolic with the high 

 winds which have coaxed them away from the boughs. 

 Grateful then must the trees feel to the mist that enshrouds 

 them while grief for their loss is fresh, and before they have 

 learned to silently appear naked before the winter. 



SNOWBERRY. CORAL-BERRY. INDIAN CURRANT. 



(Plate CXLII) 



Symphoricdrpos Symphoricdrpos. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. Erects spreading. 2-5 feet. Ga. and No. Carolina July- 



northward. Fruit: Sept. 



Branches purplish brown : pubescent. Leaves : simple ; alternate ; with 

 short petioles ; oval; blunt or rounded at both ends; entire; glabrous above 

 and pubescent underneath. Flowers : growing in small, dense, axillary clusters 

 not as long as the leaves. Calyx : four to five-toothed. Corolla : white or 

 reddish; campanulate ; four to five-lobed. Stamens: included. Berries: 

 bluish red; nearly globose and remaining on the branches after the leaves 

 have fallen. 



After the glories of the summer and the early autumn have 

 departed, with the humility of natural beauty the warm, richly- 

 coloured berries of this shrub illumine the landscape. It 



