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be found several species of the strawberry-shrub, including 
the hairy one which has the fragrant flowers scented like the 
strawberry; the fragrant Chimonanthus, from Japan, is a 
member of this family, and is known to the natives there as 
karamume. A short distance to the eastward of the cercis- 
leaf family is the laurel family, represented by the spice-bush 
(Benzoin), a native of northeastern North America; as the 
different kinds of flowers, staminate and pistillate, are borne 
on different plants, only those having pistillate flowers bear 
the bright red berries in the summer and autumn. To the 
west of this is the Virginia willow family, with shrubs of 
the Virginia willow, a native of the southeastern United 
States. To the north of this is the hydrangea family; here 
will be found the syringas, the deutzias, and the hydrangeas, 
several species of each; the mock orange (Philadelphus), a 
native of Europe, indicates its presence by the rich fragrance 
of its fowers: the slender deutzia, from 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 show- 
iest 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 uncompleted north path; here is the common witch-hazel, 
of eastern North America, from which the extract of witch- 
hazel, or Pond’s extract, is made; the spiked corylopsis, a 
Japanese shrub, belongs here, as do the fothergillas of the 
southeastern United States. 
he rose family occupies a large area, beginning just north 
of the gooseberries and currants and extending westward to 
the main north and south driveway, and southward along 
that as far as the first transverse path; here belong the 
