June 19, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



245 



it spreads out into a broad round-headed shrub, with large, 

 handsome, bright green and nearly entire leaves, and in 

 earl)' June the plants are covered with broad cymes of cream- 

 white blossoms. It would be difficult to improve these 

 plants in their general character, and yet, no doubt, under 

 cultivation they will develop many minor differences of 



a height often feet and an equal breadth. In early autumn 

 its ripening berries turn to a bright pink or flesh color, and 

 later on become almost black, with a blue bloom, and the 

 .deep green foliage changes to purple or to a deep claret 

 color. 



Viburnum nudum, a more southern plant, closely resem- 



Flowerinp; hybrid. 



Fii^. 36. — Betula pumila X Icnta. — See iJai;e 243. 

 2. Fruiliiig hyljrid. 3. Scale o£ fruit. 4. Nutlet. 5. Leaf of Belula lenta. 6. Leaf of Boluia puniila. 



form. We observed last week that among a dozen of them, 

 standing in a group, the flower-cymes of one were much 

 broader than those of the average and were elevated in the 

 centre, so that they assumed an almost hemispherical form. 

 Under good cultivation V. cassinoides will probably reach 



hies this, although its leaves are thicker and rather more 

 lustrous. V. acerifolium is a somewhat smaller plant, with 

 Maple-shaped leaves, which turn in autumn to a bright 

 scarlet, and it flowers at the same time with V. cassinoides. 

 We have no space here to mention V. Lentago, the Sheep 



