FOREIGN SHRUBS IN CENTRAL 

 PARK 



( Comprising the principal foreign hardy shrubs culti- 

 vated in the Northeastern United States.} 



ANALYTICAL KEY 



Shrubs not "evergreen" (like spruce or pine) nor 



cone-bearing. 

 Shrubs whose blossoms are Ttot in the form of catkins, 



as in chestnut. 

 Shrubs not thorny nor prickly : 



blossoms before or with the leaves : 



flowers white : 1-3, 36(a, c), 63(b, c), 71 



("Native Shrubs," 102) 

 flowers purplish or rosy to red : 2-4, 36(b, c), 

 43, 47, 63(b, c), 71 (" Native Shrubs," 

 102) ("Foreign Trees," 2) 

 flowers yellow : 5-10, 54 

 blossoms after the leaves : 



GROUP I. — Blossoms White or Cream-white 

 Section I. — Flowers Polypetalous 

 LEAVES SIMPLE: 

 Alternate : 



Entire : II-14, 71 



Serrate (not lobed) : 14-18, ig (a, d, e, j, k), 73 

 (" Foreign Trees," 13, 19) 

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