Trees Preferring to Grow in Light or 

 Dry Soil: Upland Places, Meadows and 



Roadsides. 



IV/ien lo7V upon the meadows adjoining the roadsides hangs 

 a mist so white as to suggest a phantom lake, and the air is 

 chilled zvith a scent of moisture, then the time of the autumn 

 haze has come. Through it dimly can be seen the outlines of 

 trees. Trees at zvhose bases are soft beds of brown leaves. 

 They have finished their luork and their frolic zvith the high 

 ivinds which have coaxed them azvay from the boughs. 

 Grateful then must the trees feel to the mist that enshrouds 

 them while grief for their loss is fresh, and before they have 

 learned to silently appear naked before the winter. 



SNOWBERRY. CORAL-BERRY. INDIAN CURRANT. 



{Plate CXLII) 



Symphoricdrpos Symphoricdrpos, 



FAMILY 

 Honeysuckle. 



SHAPE 

 Erect y ipreading. 



HEIGHT RANGE 



2-s/eet. Ga. and No. Carolina 

 northward. 



TIME OF BLOOM 

 Fruit.- Sept. 



Branches : purplish brown ; puliescent. Leaves : simple ; alternate ; with 

 short petioles ; oval; blunt or rounded at both ends; entire; glabrous above 

 and pubescent underneath. Flowers : growing in small, dense, axillary clusters 

 not as long as the leaves. Ctrlvx : four to five-toothed. Corolla : white or 

 reddish; campanulate ; four to five-lnbed. Sfametts : included. Berries: 

 bluish red ; nearly globose and remaining on the branches after the leaves 

 have fallen. 



After the glories of the summer and the early autumn have 

 departed, with the humility of natural beauty the warm, richly- 

 coloured berries of this shrub illumine the landscape. It 



