STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



has access to sunlight and freer air. It seldom grows higher 

 than two or three feet, forming a low leafy bush, the leaves 

 oblong, slightly toothed, in opposite pairs; the branches are 

 covered with a smooth red bark; the footstalks of the leaves 

 are also red, the flowers funnel-shaped, the slender corolla 

 divided into five lobes, the lower lip trifid. The flowers, on 

 slender peduncles, mostly in threes, spring from the axils of 

 the leaves. The small seeds are contained in a hard two- 

 celled, two-valved woody pod. The color of the flowers 

 varies from straw-color to tawny yellow. Under cultivation 

 the Diervilla increases in size and abundance of the flowers; 

 it is very hardy and will thrive in sunnier spots than the 

 more delicate Twin-flowered Honeysuckle, which requires 

 shade. 





 SNOWRERRY Symphoricarpus racemosus ( Michx. ) . 



Everyone is familiar with that pretty, ornamental garden 

 shrub, the Snowberry, so often seen in English shrubberies, 

 as well as in our Canadian gardens ; but every admirer of it 

 does not know that it is a native of the Dominion and may 

 be found growing in uncultivated luxuriance on the banks 

 of streams and inland waters, on the rocky banks of rapid 

 rivers and lonely lakes, whose surface has never been ruffled 

 by the keel of the white man's boat, spots known only to the 

 Indian hunter or the adventurous fur-trapper. There, bend- 

 ing its flexile branches to kiss the surface of the still waters, 

 its pure white waxen berries may be seen, looking as if some 

 cunning hand for very sport had moulded them from virgin 

 wax and hung them among the dark green foliage. 



The blossoms of the Snowberry are small red and white 

 bells, in clustered loose heads along the ends of the light, 

 flexible sprays; during the flowering season the branches 



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