GUIDE TO THE SHRUBS 



Leaves deciduous, compound : 



a. — Stems with spines or priekles, 



b. — Stems without spines or prickles, 



Leaves deciduous, simple, opposite on the stem..^ 



' Raspberries 

 Bla< kberries 



Roses 

 Prickly Ash 



{Rose Acacia 



(Sumachs 

 Elders 



Pea Family 



Shrub Yellow-root 



Bladder-nut 



Dwarf Buckeye 



Wafer Ash 



.Shrubby Cinque/oil 

 (Dogwood Family 

 Honeysuckle Family 

 Staff-tree Family 

 St. Johns-worts 

 Strawberry-shrub 

 Button-bush 

 ^Oleaster Family 



Leaves deciduous, simple, alternate on the stem : 

 a. — Stems prickly ; flowers yellow or greenish, 



S Barberries 

 \ Gooseberries 



( Magnolias 



b. — Flowers large, white or purplish, solitary < Stuartia 



( Gordon ia 



c. — Flowers white, clustered, in umbels or corymbs 

 or spikes 



Plums 



Cherries 



Choice-berries 



Exochorda 



Clethra 



d. — Flowers white, pale pink or greenish, ( Huckleberry Family 



bell-like or urn-shaped < Many genera of the 



[ Heath Family 

 £.— Flowers white, pink or yellow ; each corolla r Lilacs 



made up of a tube and a spreading bor- 

 der 



Privet 

 Azaleas 

 Rhodora 

 ^Mezeron 



