FLOWERING SHRUBS 



The Swamp Rose (Rosa Carolina L.) is not uncommon ; 

 it is often seen growing at the margins of lakes and rivers 

 and at the edges of stony islands; it will climb, with the 

 aid of supporting trees, to the height of eight and ten feet. 

 The numerous and showy flowers are of a somewhat pur- 

 plish tinge of pink and are borne in corymbs; the leaves 

 are whitish underneath. This rose is armed with stout 

 hooked prickles below, on the old woody stem, but is 

 smoother above; the flowers are more clustered than in the 

 other species. 



The Sweet Briar is often found growing in waste places 

 and in thickets near clearings the seed, no doubt, carried 

 thither by those unconscious husbandmen, the wild birds and 

 the squirrels, that feed upon the heps as they ripen. The 

 leaves retain for some time their sweet fragrance that is so 

 delicious. 



There is a delicate pale-flowered Sweet Briar Rose (Rosa 

 micrantha Smith), having small foliage and numerous 

 blossoms, stems low and branching, and covered with hooked 

 prickles, which has been found growing on the high oak hills 

 in the township of Rawdon, and which, I am informed, is 

 not uncommon in similar localities in Western Canada. 



WAXWORK CLIMBING BITTERSWEET Celastrus 

 scandens ( L. ) . 



This highly ornamental climber, with its clusters of con- 

 spicuous berries, is a great adornment to open woods during 

 the late autumnal months, and indeed all through the 

 winter, twining round the stems of slender saplings of 

 white birch, cherry, ash, and elm, not unfrequently clinging 

 so closely to its supporter as to form an intimate union 

 with the bark, its own smooth slender stem, in serpent-like 

 coils, forming graceful volutes round the column of the 



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