EARLY-FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



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cool rocky woods ; its flat, white flower clusters ajj- 

 pear in May or June. The leaves are like those of the 

 maple in shape, and the blackish fruit, about as large 

 as a huckleberry, is ripe in early autumn ; it is not flt 

 to eat. Another species, 

 arrowwood ( Yibiirnum 

 dentatum), general- 



ly found in damp 

 places throughout 

 the North 





Dockmackie. 



and West, has roundish leaves, straight-veined and 

 coarsely toothed, and bears small clusters of white 

 flowers which appear in June. This shrub grows 

 from five to fifteen feet high, and sends out remark- 

 ably straight shoots. It is occasionally found in the 

 tliickets of the roadside. 



On the mountain road which passes through the 

 woods we will probably see the large, almost heart- 



