DOGWOOD FAMILY 



in a group of dogwoods arranged for winter color 

 give an excellent effect. 



The leaves are slender- petioled, oval or ovate, 

 acuminate or acute at apex, two to four inches long; 

 dark green above, paler green and slightly pubescent 

 beneath. The Mower clusters are one and a hall to two 

 inches across, the petals lanceolate. The fruit is dark 

 blue and a little less bitter than that of some of the 

 other species, so that it is taken by the birds. The 

 range extends I rum Nova Scotia to Georgia and west 

 as far as Minnesota. 



RED-STEMMED DOGWOOD. WHITE-FRUITED DOG- 

 WOOD 



Cornits alba. [Corinis sanguinea.) 



The Red-stemmed or Red-twigged Dogwood is one 

 of the most satisfactory of cultivated shrubs. A na- 

 tive of northern Europe and northern Asia, it is per- 

 fectly hardy here, and the brilliant blood-red stems 

 against a white background of snow, arrest the at- 

 tention of the most unobservant. The flood tide of 

 color is in February and March ; as the leaves begin 

 to appear the color fades and during the summer the 

 steins are dull. 



There is no objection to its common name ; it is fit- 

 ting and appropriate. Nor is there an) 7 objection to 

 the botanical name, Cornits sanguinea, were that the 

 name of the plant. But it is not, unfortunately ; and 

 furthermore, it never can be. That name has already 

 been given to an entirely different species; it has been 

 recorded in all the finding lists of Europe, and it will 



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