STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
has access to sunlight and freer air. It seldom grows higher 
than two or three feet, forming a low leafy bush, the leaves 
oblong, slightly toothed, in opposite pairs; the branches are 
covered with a smooth red bark; the footstalks of the leaves 
are also red, the flowers funnel-shaped, the slender corolla 
divided into five lobes, the lower lip trifid. The flowers, on 
slender peduncles, mostly in threes, spring from the axils of 
the leaves. The small seeds are contained in a hard two- 
celled, two-valved woody pod. The color of the flowers 
varies from straw-color to tawny yellow. Under cultivation 
the Diervilla increases in size and abundance of the flowers; 
it is very hardy and will thrive in sunnier spots than the 
more delicate Twin-flowered Honeysuckle, which requires 
shade. 
SNowBERRY—Symphoricarpus racemosus (Michx.). 
Everyone is familiar with that pretty, ornamental garden 
shrub, the Snowberry, so often seen in English shrubberies, 
as well as in our Canadian gardens; but every admirer of it 
does not know that it is a native of the Dominion and may 
be found growing in uncultivated luxuriance on the banks 
of streams and inland waters, on the rocky banks of rapid 
rivers and lonely lakes, whose surface has never been ruffled 
by the keel of the white man’s boat, spots known only to the 
Indian hunter or the adventurous fur-trapper. There, bend- 
ing its flexile branches to kiss the surface of the still waters, 
its pure white waxen berries may be seen, looking as if some 
cunning hand for very sport had moulded them from virgin 
wax and hung them among the dark green foliage. 
The blossoms of the Snowberry are small red and white 
bells, in clustered loose heads along the ends of the light, 
flexible sprays; during the flowering season the branches 
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