SNOWBERRY 



the first of the viburnums to bloom ; appearing early 

 in May. 



The inflorescence is a flat cyme two to three inches 

 across ; the individual flowers do not vary from the 

 type, the leaves are thick dark green, and the fruit 

 when ripening gives a succession of beautiful color 

 through the range of pale green, glowing scarlet and 

 dark blue-black. It has long been in cultivation, and 

 is valuable because of its early bloom ; in other re- 

 spects it does not excel our native species. 



SNOWBERRY 



Symphoricdrpos racembsus. 



Symphoricarpos, fruit grown together ; named from the 

 clustered berries. 



An erect shrub three to five feet high, with smooth, slender 

 branches. Found in rocky places and on river banks from Nova 

 Scotia to British Columbia, south to Pennsylvania and Ken- 

 tucky. Widely planted as an ornamental shrub ; suckers freely ; 

 prefers limestone soils. 



Leaves. — Opposite, simple, short-petioled, one to two and 

 one-half inches long, oval or ovate, rounded at base and rounded 

 or slightly acute at apex, entire or undulate; those of young 

 shoots sometimes dentate. They come out of the bud involute, 

 dull pale green, smooth, when full grown are dull dark green 

 above, paler green below. In autumn they remain unchanged 

 until caught by the heavy late frosts. 



Flowers. — June to September. Perfect, small, white or pink 

 bells, in axillary few-flowered clusters and in terminal clusters 

 which are often leafy. 



Calyx. — Tube nearly globular, adnate to the ovary, the border 

 four to five-toothed. 



Corolla. — Bell-shaped, one-fourth of an inch long, four to five- 

 toothed, slightly gibbous at base, bearded at the throat, pinkish 

 white. 



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