MY SHRUBS IIS 
new-comer. 5S. tinctoria, the Sweet Leaf of the Southern United 
States, has sugary foliage from which a yellow dye is manufac- 
tured. 
Symphoricarpus racemosus, the Snow Berry, is a familiar shrub- 
bery weed, of which the variety S. vulgaris has red berries and a 
most beautiful habit. 
Syringa one need no more than mention. You doubtless have 
your favourite hybrid lilacs, and there is no more precious thing 
than a mighty junket bowl full of their dark purple and pure 
white. The species are seldom seen or sold, but nurserymen 
can provide the true, late-flowering S. japonica—creamy white 
in a dense thyrse of blossom—and I am fond, too, of the little 
S. persica, whose delicate lavender trusses never fail to please. 
