FLOWERING SHRUBS 
The Swamp Rose (Rosa Carolina—L.) is not uncommon ,; 
it is often seen growing at the margins of lakes and rivers 
and at the edges of stony islands; it will climb, with the 
aid of supporting trees, to the height of eight and ten feet. 
The numerous and showy flowers are of a somewhat pur- 
plish tinge of pink and are borne in corymbs; the leaves 
are whitish underneath. This rose is armed with stout 
hooked prickles below, on the old woody stem, but is 
smoother above; the flowers are more clustered than in the 
other species. 
The Sweet Briar is often found growing in waste places 
and in thickets near clearings—the seed, no doubt, carried 
thither by those unconscious husbandmen, the wild birds and 
the squirrels, that feed upon the heps as they ripen. The 
leaves retain for some time their sweet fragrance that is so 
delicious. 
There is a delicate pale-flowered Sweet Briar Rose (Rosa 
micrantha—Smith), having small foliage and numerous 
blossoms, stems low and branching, and covered with hooked 
prickles, which has been found growing on the high oak hills 
in the township of Rawdon, and which, I am informed, is 
not uncommon in similar localities in Western Canada. 
WaxXWwoORK—CLIMBING BITTERSWEET—Celastrus 
scandens (L.). 
This highly ornamental climber, with its clusters of con- 
spicuous berries, is a great adornment to open woods during 
the late autumnal months, and indeed all through the 
winter, twining round the stems of slender saplings of 
white birch, cherry, ash, and elm, not unfrequently clinging 
so closely to its supporter as to form an intimate union 
‘with the bark, its own smooth slender stem, in serpent-like 
coils, forming graceful volutes round the column of the 
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