STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
flowers, newly-set fruit and the ripe berries all on the same 
plant. The small round leaves are veined with white, which 
gives a variegated look to their dark green surface. 
The berries are mealy and insipid but are eaten by the 
Indian women and children as a dainty. These berries form 
food for the wood-grouse—our Canadian partridge—and for 
the woodchuck and other small quadrupeds that have their 
haunts in our forests and cedar swamps. The elegant 
wreaths of dark variegated leaves and scarlet berries are 
sometimes used by Canadian girls as ornaments for their 
hair; and I have seen white muslin evening dresses trimmed 
with the sprays of this pretty evergreen, which had a charm- 
ing effect, besides showing good taste and economy combined 
in the fair wearers. 
HIGH-BUSH CRANBERRY—AMERICAN GUELDER-ROSE— 
P Viburnum Opulus (L.). 
This fine shrub, with its large loose cymes of white 
flowers, makes a goodly show during the month of June, 
mingling its snowy blossoms with the surrounding foliage 
of dark evergreens on the wooded banks of forest streams 
and along the low shores of inland lakes and islands. Not 
less attractive is it when the full bunches of oval berries 
begin to ripen, first turning to amber, then brilliant orange 
scarlet, and lastly, when touched by the frosts of autumn, 
to a transparent crimson. All through the winter you may 
see the bright ruby fruit upon the bushes, among the snow- 
clad branches, sometimes encased in crystal ice and magni- 
fied by the magic touch of hoar-frost. Nor is the fruit of 
the High-bush Cranberry altogether useless to the Canadian 
housekeeper; an excellent jelly is often made from the acid 
juice and pulp of the ripe fruit, when strained from the fiat 
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