DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. ATT 
no doubt it will. flourish in any garden loam, and is prop- 
agated the same as the Snowball. 
We have a number of other species, which would well 
repay cultivation. Most of them would require the same 
treatment as the Azalea, and that class of plants, as they 
are found in swamps and woods. Some of them are very 
beautiful, viz.: V. dentatum, nudum, acerifolium, ete. 
V. lantanoides,—Wayfaring Tree, Hobble Bush.—This 
fine native plant “received its specific name, lantanoides, 
from its resemblance to the English Wayfaring Tree, 
V. lantana, the tree which William addresses, when he 
says :— 
‘ Wayfaring Tree ! what ancient claim 
Hast thou to that right pleasant name ? 
* * * * * 
Whate’er it be, I love it well,— 
A name, methinks, that surely feil 
From poet, in some evening dell, 
Wandering with fancies sweet.’ 
“That tree rises to the height of eighteen or twenty 
feet, and has an ample head of white flowers. Ours, less 
fortunate in its name, is a stout, low bush, found in dark, 
rocky woods, and making a show, in such solitary places, 
of a broad head of flowers, the marginal ones often an inch 
across.” * * * “The leaves are from four to six 
inches in length and breadth, roundish, heart-shaped at 
base, ending in a short, abrupt point, and unequally ser- 
rate on the margin. They are smooth above, but beneath 
downy on the veins, which are thereby rendered striking- 
ly distinct, * * * The fruit is ovate, large, of bright 
crimson color, turning afterwards almost black.”—(Hmer- 
son.) The first time we beheld this crooked, straggling 
shrub, in flower, in its native haunts, a dark swamp, we 
thought it one of the most ornamental shrubs of the coun- 
try. It is certainly worthy of a place in every collection 
of shrubs. It will no doubt succeed with the same treat- 
