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transplant from the woods into their "yards." Usually they 

 prefer to buy their "ornamental" trees and shrubs from the 

 traveling nursery salesman, and no amount of argument or 

 comparison will convince them that they have, in many instances, 

 paid considerable money for exactly the same things they have 

 growing in their own woods or back pasture. "The man said it 

 was from Japan," and that settles it. But perhaps because 

 they can see "the dogwoods gleaming white" through the dark- 

 ness of the other trees, they find it acceptable, even if it does 

 "just grow wild." 



Four viburnums are common in this region, V. acerifoluim, 

 V. dentatum, V. Lentago, and V. prunifolium. Branches of what 

 I take to be V. alnifolium have been brought to me, but as I have 

 never come across a bush I cannot say it is common. V. Lentago 

 and V. prunifolium are in bloom by the last of May, but the others 

 are a week or ten days later. V. prunifolium forms dense thickets 

 in some places, and when the bushes are in bloom they are worth 

 going to see. The leaves are always beautiful, being more 

 glossy and richer colored than the other species, but in the late 

 fall they are particularly beautiful, turning rich dark red and 

 bronze. V. Lentago grows along the neglected back roads and 

 the pasture fences. Its clusters of flowers are larger than 

 V. prunifolium, but to me not so attractive. In the fall the 

 foliage is much more brilliant but does not stay on the bushes so 

 long. V. acerifolium, the "flowering maple," as it is called here, 

 grows plentifully in the woods. In the open woods the flowers 

 are quite white, but where it is very shady they are a dull pink. 

 Late in September the leaves begin to fall, some turning a dull 

 grayish brown, and quickly falling, others assuming a purplish 

 tinge, and others becoming quite pink in blotches, and lasting 

 a long time, making a beautiful contrast to the almost black 

 fruit. The odor of all the viburnum flowers is unpleasant, but 

 of V. dentatum exceedingly so. The cymes of this species vary 

 greatly in size, even on the same bush, some being about six 

 inches in diameter, others not more than two. The leaves 

 remain green until late, then shrivel and fall. Some birds are 

 fond of the fruit, and it is seldom one can find a full cluster after 

 the berries begin to turn. 



