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the lower land below, to the east of the path, is the Virginia 
willow family, with shrubs of the Virginia willow, a native 
of the southeastern United States. Across the path from 
this is the hydrangea family; here may be found the 
syringas (Philadelphus), the deutzias and the hydrangeas, 
several species of each; the mock orange (Philadelphus 
coronarius), a native of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Europe, 
indicates its presence by the rich fragrance of its flowers; 
the slender deutzia, from Japan, bears its long slender 
clusters of white flowers in great profusion; the lawn hy- 
drangea bears a profusion of large bunches of white flowers, 
which in the late summer and autumn change to a beautiful 
rose color; the oak-leaved hydrangea is perhaps the oddest 
member of this genus and is a native from Georgia and 
Florida to Mississippi. Following the hydrangea family 
comes the gooseberry family, and to this belong the currants 
and gooseberries; one of the showiest is the golden currant, 
native from South Dakota to Texas, its rich yellow flowers 
giving forth a delicious spicy fragrance. The witch- 
hazel family is located to the north of the north path and on 
the point opposite; here is the witch-hazel, of eastern 
North America, from which the extract of witch-hazel, or 
Pond’s extract, is made, the Japanese witch-hazel, and also 
a Chinese representative of this genus; the common cory- 
lopsis, a Japanese shrub, belongs here, as do the fother- 
gillas of the southeastern United States. 
The rose family occupies a large area, beginning just 
north of the gooseberries and currants and extending west- 
ward to the main north and south driveway, and south- 
ward along that as far as the first transverse path; here 
belong the spiraeas, of which there are many forms, the 
blackberries, the raspberries, the roses and others. Among 
the spiraeas, the steeple-bush or hard-hack and the hairy 
meadow-sweet are common as wild plants in this latitude. 
Other interesting forms are Thunberg’s spiraea, from 
Japan, one of the earliest to flower, and other Japanese 
spiraeas. Among other plants of interest in the group 
