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with a taste somewhat like that of the win- 

 tergreen berry, though less aromatic. I 

 gathered a good sized bunch of the vines, for 

 one does not find many white berries in a 

 ramble, and they add a delicate beauty to 

 one's collection that is very desirable. 



A large proportion of the swamp-loving 

 shrubs and plants are berry-bearers. There, 

 for instance, is that popular little preacher, 

 jack-in-the-pulpit. I doubt if it is commonly 

 known by those who are fond of this plant 

 when in flower that it justifies itself by 

 producing fruits quite equal to its spring- 

 time promise, and thereby proclaims itself 

 superior to many an exhorter from a more 

 pretentious pulpit. The brilliant scarlet ber- 

 ries of jack-in-the-pulpit make one of the 

 prettiest bits of color to be found in the 

 autumn woods. They are thickly packed 

 together on the fleshy spike, and form a 

 perfect mass of crimson under the hoodlike 

 spathe. 



The dwarf cornel is a swamp shrub that 

 bears a bright red berry of edible and nour- 

 ishing quality. The poison sumach has a 

 rather inconspicuous, whitish berry, ar- 

 ranged in small clusters. The common 

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