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coast to Lincoln, is 4 to 8 feet high, and has small 

 white flowers in drooping racemes, which are 3 to 5 

 inches long on the ends of the branches. 



1. Wild Hydrangea. (Hydrangea arborescens, 

 Linn.) — A smooth shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, growing 

 along streams and on mountain and hill sides of the 

 Upper and Middle Districts. The leaves are 3 to 5 

 inches long, heart-shaped, pointed, toothed. The 

 flowers are whitish, in flat-topped clusters, some of 

 those on the margin being large and showy like those 

 of the cultivated Hydrangea. 



V 2. Snowy Hydrangea. (H. radiata, Walt.) — 

 Found only on the mountains west of the Blue 

 Ridge from Yancey to Georgia. North of this it has 

 not, I think, been detected. It is from 3 to 6 or 8 

 feet high. The leaves are heart-shaped, 4 to 6 inches 

 long, the underside clothed with a thick, silvery- 

 white down. The barren flowers, which give this 

 genus the peculiarity for which it is admired, are in 

 this species found only around the border of the flat- 

 topped cluster, but are said to become much more 

 abundant in cultivation. They are of a pure white, 

 an inch or more broad. This pretty shrub would be 

 much prized in gardens, if there were not some more 

 showy species in cultivation. 



n: 1. Syringa. (Philadelphus grandiflorus, Willd.) 

 — This very ornamental shrub, now common in our 

 yards and gardens, prized for its graceful, slender 

 branches and snow-white flowers, does not appear to 

 be abundant in this State. I am acquainted with 



