Shrubs and Vines 
Symphoricarpus contains two species of small shrubs 
whose white and red berries, respectively, have given 
them the names of snow-berry and coral-berry. They 
are delicately foliaged, and produce small but very 
pretty pinkish flowers in mid-summer. The snow-berry 
has fewer but much larger and handsomer berries than 
the coral-berry, in which they are dull red and crowded 
on the stems. Both grow wild in our territory, but are 
chiefly seen in cultivation. 
Antedating the flowering of the forsythia by at least 
two weeks is a plant which, in itstype and color of 
blossom, might easily be mistaken for it—the early- 
flowering jasmine ( Jasminum nudiflorum) from China, 
very conspicuous in its solitary bloom. Being a pros- 
trate shrub, it verges on the vine, and can be effec- 
tively massed in an upright position against the house, 
where it shows with fine effect. The later appearing 
leaves are trifoliate. It is on the east side of the 
<< Ramble.”’ 
Allied to our angelica-tree is a thorny shrub from 
China (4rala chinensis), of lower growth, and with 
minute differences that indicate diverse origin. This is 
in the Park, with another (4. pentaphylla), from Japan, 
whose leaf is palmate with five leaflets. Both may need 
slight protection in winter. 
The Chinese chestnut, so called (Xanthoceras sorbifo- 
Zia), found in the Park, is but little cultivated as yet in 
this country. It is very showy in bloom, producing an 
abundance of long clusters of white flowers, and the 
compound leaves are not unlike those of the mountain- 
ash. Not being especially tender, and of graceful figure, 
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