HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



The Maple-leaved Viburnum so nearly resembles a 

 group of young maples at the forest's edge as fre- 

 quently to be mistaken for them. The bush at flower- 

 ing time is exceedingly pretty ; it grows in clumps 

 and although the flower clusters are not large they 

 are abundant and stand up well at the ends of the 

 branches. 



The autumnal coloring is fine, melting from dull red 

 into rose pink, even upon occasion fading into cream- 

 white. Rarely, an entire clump will be cream-white, 

 or cream-white flushed with pale pink, — again a single 

 bush will vary from old rose to cream-white. The 

 effect is startling. Just what occasions this unusual 

 white coloring is difficult to tell. The only other 

 plant that I know, which sometimes does the same 

 thing, is the Flowering Dogwood, whose normal 

 autumnal tint is a brilliant scarlet; yet I have seen 

 small trees in the depths of the woods clothed in 

 white from crown to tip. 



DOWNY VIBURNUM 



Viburnum piibescens. 



A compact shrub three to four feet high, with grayish slender 

 branches and soft brown, downy twigs ; found on dry rocky 

 banks. Ranges from Quebec and Ontario to Georgia, west to 

 Michigan and Iowa. 



Leaves. — Opposite, simple, pinnately veined, two and a half to 

 four inches long, ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded or heart- 

 shaped at base, dentate-serrate or entire acute or acuminate at 

 apex. They come out of the bud involute, pale green, shining 

 and hairy ; when full grown, thick, bright green above, paler 

 green below ; sometimes only downy on the veins beneath, often 



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