The Shrubs of Wyoming. 



BY ELIAS NELSON. 



Our native shrubs are objects of more or less interest to all, 

 and a bulletin treating of these, it. has been thought, would be 

 welcome to the people of the state. This bulletin has therefore 

 been prepared as an aid in the identification of native shrubs, 

 and it is hoped that it may be instrumental in creating a greater 

 interest in these denizens of our hills, plains and mountains, 

 and a more general planting of them for home decoration. 



This station has already issued two bulletins on trees, one 

 treating of the cultivated, the other of the native trees of this 

 state.* It is now well to give shrubs some attention, and a 

 bulletin dealing with our native ones is therefore published. It 

 is hoped that this station may issue other bulletins, which shall 

 treat more in detail of certain classes of shrubs of economic im- 

 portance. It has seemed best to prepare as a first bulletin on 

 the shrubs one including all those known to occur within our 

 borders. 



While the kinds of trees in the state are few, we have a great 

 variety of shrubs. As objects of aesthetic value, they are of 

 much interest. They beautify our water courses, forming de- 

 lightful thickets and lining the streams with a pleasing variety 

 of verdure. They occur as scattered growths on hillsides and 

 in canons ; fringe the borders of woods, and grow far up the 

 sides of snow-capped mountain peaks. The copses and thick- 



*In Bulletin No. 38, entitled "Cultivated Shade and Forest Trees," Prof B. C. Buffum 

 treats of the trees which are generally planted or have been tried in Wyoming. Directions as to 

 care and planting are included in this bulletin. Bulletin No. 40, by Prof. Aven Nelson, entitled 

 " The Trees ot Wyoming and How to Know Them," describes our native trees and contains 

 numerous illustrations as an aid to their identification. The edition of this bulletin is now ex- 

 hausted, and, hence, copies of it cannot now be furnished by the station. 



