CHAPTEK IX. 



THE VIBURNUM OR SNOWBALL. 



This is quite a numerous and interesting family. 

 Most people suppose there is only one, and that the 

 old kind with which we are so familiar. 



This is called Viburnum Sterilis. There are no seeds 

 following the great double flowers which appear in 

 spring time. It generally takes the bush form, though 

 with a little care it can be trained into a tree, and 

 when it is 15 feet tall, with massive head, covered with 

 a profusion of snowy blooms, it is exceedingly attrac- 

 tive. These are ordinarily propagated by layers. 



Some keep bushes for that purpose. Pull down the 

 lower branches and cover them with six inches of 

 earth. Allow no weeds to grow near and in the fall 

 you will have nice, well rooted plants. These are cut 

 off and planted by themselves. I 'have sometimes 

 raised a dozen from a single bush. 'No home should 

 be without these snowballs. They are hardy and great 

 bloomers. 



Viburnum Opulis is the high bush cranberry so com- 

 mon in the Minnesota forests. I well remember in the 

 early days that it was our delight in winter to come 

 upon clumps -of these berries in that northern land 

 when fruit was scarce and high. One trouble in rais- 



