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very attractive. They have white flowers in the spring, 

 followed bv great clusters of berries of shining blue. 

 They prove hardy in Manitoba. 



Vihurnum Lentago is a native species, growing from 

 Maine to Georgia. It is a handsome, low growing tree 

 of great beauty. I do not know whether it has been 

 tested fully in the West. This is called the sweet 

 viburnum or sheep berry. Its flowers are creamy 

 white, and very fragrant. The foliage is light glossy 

 gTeen, It has a profusion of berries in the fall. 



Laiiianoides is another small and shapely tree belong- 

 ing to this family. 



Prunifolium or the black haw also belongs in this 

 list, and it is interesting to know that two of the impor- 

 tant branches of this family are natives of the I^orth, 

 and ^'hardy as the oak.'' 



With w^hat avidity the schoolboy strays from the 

 direct path going home to regale himself with the ripe 

 rich fruit of the black haw. Plant masses of them. 

 Flower and fruit are attractive, and the autumn color- 

 ing is simply gorgeous. 



Plicahwi is from Japan or ^orth China. It is a 

 marvelous bloomer, rivaling, if possible, the old Sterilis. 

 I have seen these bushes with great massive mounds of 

 snowy bloom in the East; but I have never succeeded 

 with them in the West unless they had shelter from the 

 sun. How far north they have been tested I cannot 

 say. Many things will thrive in northern Minnesota 

 which cannot endure the heat of ^N'ebraska and Kansas. 



The Tomentosum is a beautiful sins^le form of the 



