Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
has done its whole duty by early rising, but follows up 
the floral display by a growth of dark-green, almost 
glossy, laurel-shaped foliage that has lost none of its 
freshness in the last of September, when brilliant scarlet 
berries peep out among the leaves in striking contrast, 
for rarely do bright fruit and deep-green foliage occur 
together so late in fall. 
Individually, the flower of the spice-bush is as dimin- 
utive and ineffective as can be imagined, almost micro- 
scopic; but this is only one instance out of many in 
the floral kingdom that contradicts the old adage, and 
proves that quantity is sometimes quite equal to quality. 
With the exception of the magnolia, rhododendron, 
azalea, and one or two others, all of our most striking 
landscape inflorescence is produced by the vast aggre- 
gation of diminutive blossoms. Throughout the Park 
and in every lawn about the last of April the leafless 
branches of the forsythia are buried in small yellow 
flowers, looking like wands of gold; at about the same 
time, a tree here and there in the landscape is seen to 
have suddenly burst as by magic into snowy white; it 
is the shadbush or June-berry smothered in myriads of 
diminutive rose-shaped flowers; later the numerous 
black haws—tree and shrub—and wild black cherry 
tree, form snowy masses out of a million tiny flowers ; 
still more inconspicuous are the separate blossoms of 
the Judas-tree—an anomaly in nature—whose every 
branch and twig seems dipped in blood, from countless 
tiny purplish-red flowers; a beautiful tree of this sort is 
in the Park not far from the Webster statue, and others 
not so large are on the east side. Of almost micro- 
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