114 TREES 



fruits look like scarlet olives hanging among the glossy 

 foliage in late summer. These fruits are edible, and in 

 Europe are used in preserves and cordials. 



THE VIBUIINUMS 



The honeysuckle family, which includes a multitude of 

 ornamental shrubs, furnishes two genera with three repre- 

 sentatives. Handsome foliage, showy flowers, and at- 

 tractive fruits justify the popularity of this family in 

 gardens and parks. 



The viburnums are distributed over the Northern 

 Hemisphere and extend into the tropics. There are about 

 one hundred species, including the old-fashioned snowball 

 bush, perhaps the best-known species in this country. 

 Discriminating gardeners have replaced it by the Japanese 

 snowball, because the latter has much more handsome 

 foliage and perfect flowers, instead of the barren flower 

 cluster that has nothing to show for itself once the bloom 

 is past. This new species wears the autumn decoration 

 of bright red berries well into the winter. 



The Sheepberry 



Viburnum lentago, Linn. 



In our native woods the sheepberry is a small round- 

 headed tree, with shm, drooping branches and oval leaves, 

 finely cut-toothed and tapering to wavy-wiaged petioles. 

 In autumn these leathery leaves change to orange and red, 

 their shiny surfaces contrasting with the dull lining, pitted 

 with blad£ dots. The fruit, a loose cluster of dark blue 



