STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



hamlets of Harwood and Gore's Landing. The bush is not 

 more than four or five feet high, with light branching 

 sprays. The pretty white flowers are borne in convex cymes, 

 or sometimes in panicles, and are followed by snow-white 

 berries. The foliage is dark-green, often with a purplish- 

 bronze tint; the leaves are long and narrow, the nerves 

 whitish, and the light veining distinctly marked; the sur- 

 face of the leaf is very smooth, but hardly shining. This 

 pretty shrub would be well worthy of being introduced into 

 our shrubberies. 



There are many other species of Dogwood which are com- 

 mon to our swamps and thickets, some reaching to the 

 height of small trees, as the Flowering Dogwood, C. florida, 

 which is held in great esteem in the United States for 

 certain medicinal qualities; it has been used as a substitute 

 for Peruvian bark in low fevers. The Indians are said to 

 extract a red dye from the roots. The fruit of the Flowering 

 Dogwood is scarlet; the flowers, with their showy creamy- 

 white involucres, three inches across, are very handsome, 

 and are produced abundantly in the month of June. This 

 very handsome shrub grows in Western Canada, where it 

 sometimes becomes a tree and reaches to the height of twenty 

 or thirty feet. A great contrast is this stately species to the 

 dwarf herbaceous creeping plant of our woods, Cornus 

 Canadensis. 



BED OSIER DOGWOOD Cornus stolonifera (Michx.). 



There are few of the native species of Cornel that are 

 more ornamental than the Eed Osier Dogwood, the bright 

 crimson wand-like branches of which, even when stripped of 

 their foliage, are an enduring ornament. Their rosy foliage, 

 mirrored on the surface of the smooth waters of lake or 

 forest stream, enlivens the landscape and delights the eye 



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