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( Viburnum opulus), still hold their color. Gay 

 scarlet streamers wave from the common bar- 

 berry bushes. The large flat cymes of the way- 

 faring-tree ( V. lantanoides) are covered with red 

 drupes, changing to dark-purple, while the foamy 

 blossoms of the rough-leaved Viburnum ( V. 

 rugosum) have been succeeded by the showy 

 berries of fall. Indeed, these shrubs have been 

 brilliant with fruit ever since latter August. 



I had not meant to overlook the baneberry, 

 attractive in May with its spiraea-like flowers, 

 and bright throughout August and September 

 through its ovoid, oblong, red berries. Two 

 varieties are worth cultivating Actcsa alba, 

 having white berries with red stalks, and A. 

 spicata rubra, bearing glossy vermilion fruit. 

 But the baneberry requires partial or nearly 

 entire shade, and plenty of moisture, or the 

 leaves soon tarnish, and give the plant a withered 

 appearance. It looks well suitably- placed in the 

 rock-garden, or rising from the shrubbery bor- 

 der, or the wild garden. Nearly allied to the 

 baneberry is the black snake-root (Cimicifuga 

 racemosa}. You have noticed it when passing 

 along woods on the railway, lighting their green 

 skirts with its tall white rockets of bloom. An 

 odd, bold, and distinct flower, it is not unworthy 

 of culture despite the unpleasant odor, whence 



