GUIDE TO THE SHRUBS 



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b, — Leaves orbicular, 3 to 7 lobed ; flowers small, greenish ; 

 fruit a many-seeded berry, prickly or smooth, pleasant. 

 One or two species have smooth stems. Gooseberries. . 224 

 c. — Flowers small, yellowish green ; parts in fours ; fruit a 



berry, nauseous. Buckthorns 62 



d. — Leaves large, 5-lobed ; young stems densely covered with 

 reddish glandular hairs ; flowers rose-like, pink ; fruit a 



pink raspberry. Purple-flowering Raspberry 1:7 



e. — Ornamental shrub, extensively cultivated. Flowers large, 

 scarlet, crimson, or white, appearing before or with the 



leaves ; fruit a pome. 'Japan Quince 200 



•.. 5tems smooth. 

 a. — Leaves orbicular, 3 to 5 lobed ; fruit a berry, pleasant. 



Currants 231 



b. — Flowers large, white or purplish, solitary. 



bl. — Appearing before the leaves. Magnolia 6 



b2. — Blooming in midsummer. Stuartia 31 



i'2,. — Blooming in autumn. Gordonia 34 



c. — Flowers of hollyhock type, solitary or clustered, white, 

 red, crimson, or scarlet ; frequently double. Often a 

 small tree. Blooms in late summer and autumn. 



Althca 36 



d. — Leaves silvery; flowers yellowish, often fragrant. Ole- 

 aster Family 427 



?. — Flowers white, sometimes pink, of the rose type, borne 

 in umbels or corymbs or racemes. 

 el. — Pistil solitary; fruit a drupe. 



Flowers appearing before the leaves ; usually in 



umbels. Plums. Cherries 107- 1 1 1 



Flowers appearing after the leaves, borne in ra- 

 cemes ; fruit of marked astringent quality. Choke 



Cherry 1 r 2 



Ornamental shrub ; flowers double white or pink, 

 appearing before the leaves. Flowering Almond. . 114 

 J2.— Styles 2 to 5, more or less united ; fruit a berry-like 

 pome. 

 Flowers white or purplish tinged; appearing after 



the leaves ; fruit rathe 1 : dry. Chokeberries 187 



Flowers appearing before or with the leaves ; fruit 



delicious. Juncberries lo 2 



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