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Japan, bears its long slender clusters of white flowers in 
great profusion; the large-flowered hydrangea, a Japanese- 
plant, 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; it is 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 long-flowered 
golden currant, from western North America; its rich yellow 
flowers give 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 thecommon 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 spiked 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 willow- 
leaved meadow-sweet, or quaker-lady, are common as wild 
plants in this latitude. Other interesting forms are 
Thunberg’s spiraea, from Japan, and other Japanese 
spiraeas. Among other plants of interest in the group 
which contains the spiraeas are the Chinese pearl-bush, 
a native of northern China, with its profusion of white 
flowers in early summer; the Japanese rose, from Japan, 
not a true rose, however, with bright yellow flowers; 
another shrub from Japan, known to the natives of that 
country as siro yama buki, bears large white flowers re- 
sembling in appearance those of the mock orange; two 
other Japanese shrubs, members of the same genus, and 
