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new-comer. S. tinctoria, the Sweet Leaf of the Southern United 

 States, has sugary foliage from which a yellow dye is manufac- 

 tured. 



Symphoricarpus racemosus, the Snow Berry, is a familiar shrub- 

 bery weed, of which the variety S. vulgaris has red berries and a 

 most beautiful habit. 



Syringa one need no more than mention. You doubtless have 

 your favourite hybrid lilacs, and there is no more precious thing 

 than a mighty junket bowl full of their dark purple and pure 

 white. The species are seldom seen or sold, but nurserymen 

 can provide the true, late-flowering S. japonica creamy white 

 in a dense thyrse of blossom and I am fond, too, of the little 

 S. persica, whose delicate lavender trusses never fail to please. 



