Shrubs and Vines 
mon and the red-berried, have conspicuous differences : 
the former, usually with seven to nine leaflets, has black- 
ish berries and white or pinkish pith ; the latter, usually 
with five leaflets, has red berries and brown pith. Both 
are partial to swampy ground, and may be looked for 
on the margin of ponds and streams, 
Pre-eminent for its massive flower-clusters stands the 
Hydrangea ; the foremost in hardiness and wide culti- 
vation, 7. paniculata, has been improved by horticult- 
ural art, so that its immense clusters produce a superb 
effect, and justify its pretentious title—_ydrangea panic- 
ulata grandifiora. Its catalogue of virtues is a long one 
—hardy, with ornamental foliage, of prolonged inflo- 
rescence, and with its gorgeous white pyramids changing 
at maturity to a beautiful blush that deepens to a rich 
pink followed by a delicate brown ; it is sans pareil in 
its exceptional character, and, coming into bloom with 
the opening of September, it nobly crowns the sum- 
mer’s glory, and is probably the most popular of all 
shrubs. 
Without rivalling this, yet in some ways quite as 
beautiful, especially in its glossy foliage, and with its 
blossoms similarly overspread with pink or blue, is the 
half-hardy AZ. hortensis, with large globular clusters, 
oftener seen as a potted plant, though more and more 
left out of doors in winter well protected. Horticultur- 
ists have, of course, produced varieties of this species, 
each supposed to exhibit some special excellence, as in 
tint or arrangement of flowers, or in variegation of foli- 
age; but such distinctions are often so minute as to be 
chiefly valuable as an advertising pretext. 
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