its native localities a tree often 25 or 30 feet high, and 

 sometimes more; the leaves are about eight or nine inches 

 long, and pinnate, with alternate folioles ; the flowers are 

 papilionaceous, and form long elegant pendulous clusters, in 

 the same manner as the Laburnum Or the Common Locust ; 

 the wood is yellow, and forms a yellow dye, which art has not 

 yet been able to render permanent. 



Holly Leaved Barberry, or Herberts aguifolium. This 

 shrub is an evergreen, and is admired for the beauty of its 

 pinnated foliage. It was discovered on the Rocky M<-un- 

 tains during the famous tour of Lewis and Clarke, and will 

 consequently withstand the severest rigours of winter. The 

 flowers form a most brilliant display each is small, and of a 

 fine yellow but such numbers are congregated as to form 

 large heads or clusters of great beauty. It appears to be a 

 shrub of low growth. None of mine have attained to more 

 than two and a half feet in height. Several persons have 

 killed this plant by superfluous attention, and by treating it 

 as a tender shrub. I have found, that when kept in pots, the 

 plants lingered and died. There are two other species of 

 recent introduction to our gardens, the nervosa, and pinnata. 



Snoivberry, &c. or Symfihoria. Of this native genus 

 three species are at present known, viz. 



Symfihoria racemosa, or Snoivberry. This is one of the 

 most ornamental shrubs that can deck the garden. It 

 rises to the height of five or six feet, throwing out abund- 

 ance of small shoots, at the end of each of which are pro- 

 duced clusters of small pink coloured flowers: these make 

 no display, but are followed by numerous and abundant clus- 

 ters of the most beautiful snow-white fruit, which bend the 

 branches with their weight, giving the whole shrub a weep- 

 ing appearance, and the fruit is often in such numbers as to 

 bend the branches to the ground. It is but a few years since 

 this shrub was brought from the Rocky Mountains, but so 

 greatly has it been admired, that it is now found in gardens 

 throughout our country. 



Symfihoria glauca, or Glaucous Leaved. This species is 

 of later discovery than the preceding, and does not attain to 

 above half its height; the leaves are glaucous, and the clus- 

 ters of flowers and fruit less numerous, but greatly resem- 

 bling the foregoing in colour and dimensions. 



Symfihoria glomerata, or Indian Currant. This forms a 

 shrub of about five feet in height ; the branches are numer- 

 ous ; the leaves are small, oval, and very profuse ; the 



