472 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
SYMPHORICARPUS.—Snrowzerry. 
[The name is from a combination of Greek words, signifying ‘‘a plant which 
bears its fruit together in clusters.”] 
Symphoricarpus racemésus, — Common Snowberry.— 
This is a delicate, hardy, North American shrub, extensive- 
ly known and much cultivated on account of its fine 
white berries, which are quite ornamental, after the leaves 
have fallen. The flowers are pink, and rather inconspicu- 
ous; the shrub grows about four feet high; easily prop- 
agated by suckers. 
S. vulgéris.—Indian Currant, Coral Berry.—This has 
no claims to beauty, as to the flowers, which, like the last,- 
are small and inconspicuous, of a pink color. These are 
succeeded by dark brownish-purple berries, which are 
thickly clustered upon the branches, three feet high. It 
is propagated in the same way. Both these species thrive 
in the shade and under the drippings of trees. 
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SYRINGA.—Luc. 
{A Persian name.] 
“ Various in array, now white, 
Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set 
With purple spikes pyramidal.” 
All the species are most beautiful flowering shrubs, 
readily propagated by suckers, which they throw up in 
abundance. The common Lilac seems to have been intro- 
duced before or during the reign of Henry VIIL., for in 
the inventory, taken by the order of Cromwell, of the ar- 
ticles in the gardens of the palace of Nonsuch, are men- 
tioned six Lilacs,— “trees which bear no fruit, but only a 
pleasant smell.”—(Zoudon.) 
Syringa vulgdris.—The Common Lilac.—This is so well 
known that it needs no description. The purple variety 
