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are Very beautiful, breaking out in April in dense, ra- 

 cemed clusters from the axils of the leaves. The indi- 

 vidual flowers are urn-shaped, frost or wax white, with 

 a five-toothed corolla and ten tiny little stamens with 

 golden heads. There is a daintiness, a fineness, about 

 the little flowers which goes right to the heart. The 

 little dense clusters make you think of lilies of the 

 valley. 



You will find one good sized mass of this shrub very 

 near the lamp-post which stands close by the rustic rail 

 of the path leading into the little Summer House, in the 

 middle of the southerly part of the Ramble. The mass 

 is just back of a magnificent clump of Azalea amosna. 

 The Azalea is in the right hand corner, as- you go from 

 the Summer House to the path north of it. You 

 cannot mistake it. 



Azalea viscosa. (White Swamp Honeysuckle. White 

 Azalea. Clammy Azalea. No. 45.) Close by the high- 

 bush blueberries, near the south-middle of the Ramble, 

 you will find this honeysuckle or azalea. It is a late 

 bloomer, and you can look for it the last of June or 

 early in July. Its flowers are very fragrant and of a 

 lovely pale pinkish white. Its corolla is funnel-form, 

 with five flaring lobes. You will know its flowers at 

 once by the sticky, clammy pubescence which covers 

 stem and tube. These flowers are in end clusters or 

 umbels. The branches of the shrub are very bristly 

 and hairy. The leaves are simple, about four inches 

 long, and set alternately on the branch, often crowded at 

 the ends of the branches. They are oblanceolate, entire, 

 with margins hairy and bristle tipped ends, pale green 



