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thickly clustered rows the large scarlet blos- 
soms, somewhat fuschia-like in appearance. 
The other, the wild gooseberry, so called,— 
though both are wild and untamed in their 
sylvan graces and woodland affinities,—is a 
water-loving species, growing near streams 
in moist soil, a large and robust plant, com- 
pletely covered with its myriads of white 
blossoms with red calices, whose sepals re- 
curve like the gables of Chinese pagodas. 
Both are superior to any of the Ribes of the 
Eastern States in size and in beauty. 
Surprises in the way of shrubs are the bush 
figwort and the tree poppy—true figworts 
and poppies but appearing in a new and 
strange personality to the astonished East- 
erner. The former are common and suggest 
flame-coloured azaleas. Tree poppies confine 
themselves to higher levels and are of a brill- 
iant canary yellow. Another anomaly is a 
holly-leaved cherry—a cherry plainly enough 
but with a borrowed leaf. While these are 
beginning to bloom the berries of the Cali- 
fornia holly are in their prime—holly berries 
in appearance but without a holly leaf. By 
combining the leaf of the cherry with the 
berry of the pseudo-holly, one can improvise 
a very fair holly—and this is actually done. 
