78 TREES AND SHRUBS 



being covered with crimson hairs. Those of R. 

 glabra are similarly coloured. 



RuBUS PHCENICOLASIUS has spread in cultivation 

 recently, and has beautiful scarlet berries. It is 

 hardy enough, but birds are so attracted by the 

 bright colour, that it requires protection from them 

 when in fruit. 



Sambucus. — The scarlet-berried Elder, S. race- 

 mosus, is by far the handsomest of the genus, 

 but although it flowers freely enough, it is very 

 uncertain in producing its fruits. S. glauca, 

 from the West United States, produces large, flat 

 clusters of blue-white berries, and there is a 

 striking white-fruited variety of S. nigra called 

 leucocarpa. 



The Snowberry {Symphoricarpus racemosus) should 

 always have a place in the garden for the sake of its 

 clusters of large pure white berries, which remain 

 long on the plants. 



Viburnum. — There are several very handsome 

 fruiting species in this genus, no finer, however, than 

 the native V. Opulus, or Guelder Rose, with red 

 fruits, and its variety fructu-luteo with yellow ones. 

 In the other native species, V. Lantana, they are at 

 first red, ultimately black. Several of the Viburnums 

 are noteworthy for the blue or blue-black fruits ; of 

 these are dentatum, molle, cassinoides, and nudum. 

 Those of the evergreen V. Tinus are also dark blue, 

 but, as with the other blue-fruited species, they are 

 not frequently borne in profusion in the average 

 climate of Britain. 



