47. 
THE DOGWOOD. 
Cornus sanguinea. 
PuaTE 5, Fie. 14. 
+, RIMSON twigs, green leaves, white 
Hl flowers, and dark-purple fruit, 
offer colours rarely to be found in 
individual Trees. Yet all these 
colours are possessed by the sub- 
ject of this chapter. Its peculiar 
Js redness of twig has indeed earned for it 
yn its specific botanical name. It grows to 
a a height not unfrequently of fifteen feet, 
opens its white, four-petalled flowers against 
- its crimson shoots in June, ripens its berries into 
purple in August or September, and then gives 
new beauty to the woodland by tinging its decay- 
