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the stone walls into the adjoining fields, and was com- 

 posed of different species of Cornels, Viburnums, Spi- 

 raeas, Sumacs, Prunus, Pyrus, Barberry, Clethra; also 

 Sweet Briar, and other wild roses, and here and there 

 festooned with Clematis, Apios, Celastrus, Smilax, Bit- 

 ter-sweet, Grape, and other vines ; while from the damp 

 and rich soil along the walls, under their shadow and in 

 more vacant spaces among the shrubbery, grew in rich 

 profusion many species of both lowly and lofty herbace- 

 ous plants, flowering in successive order, from the Hous- 

 tonias *nd Violets of early spring, to the Yarrow and 

 other cotnposites that linger to welcome the falling snow. 

 Some of these shrubs and plants, of which we have 

 many pressed specimens, gathered there more than thirty 

 years since, to which are attached descriptive tags of 

 locality, etc., are given below, together with others that 

 exist most graphically in the memory, both as to specific 

 form and exact spot of growth, as though we could re- 

 turn once more and pluck them again from their ample 

 stems. 



OF SHRUBS AND LOW TREES WERE 



Cornus circinata. 

 Cornus stolonifera. 

 Cornus paniculate. .^ 



Corylus Americana. 

 Viburnum Lentago. 

 Viburnum dentattim. 

 Viburnum pyrifolium. 

 Cephalanthus occidentals. 

 Clethra ulnifolia. 

 Berberis vulgaris. 

 Rosa Carolina. 

 Rosa rubiginosa. 

 Rosa lucida. 

 Rubus odoratns. 

 Rubus strigosus. 

 Rubus villosus. 



Rhus glabra. 

 Rims vernix. 

 Myriua cerifera. 

 Comptonia asplenifolia. 

 Andromeda paniculata. 

 Andromeda ligustrina. 

 Alnus serrulate. 

 Salix eriocephala. 

 Robinia pseudacacia. 

 Prunus Virginiana. 

 Prunus serotma. 

 Cratsegus Crus-galli. 

 Spiraea opulifolia. 

 Spiraea salicifolia. 

 Spiraea tomentosa. 

 Species of Prunus and Pyrus. 



OF VINES. 



Clematis Virginiana. 

 Vitis Labrusca. 

 Celastrus scandeus. 

 Apios tuberosa. 



Solatium dulcamara. 

 Smilax rotundifolia. 

 Rhus Toxicodendron. 



