HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 
Flowers.—May, June. Perfect, cream-white, borne in stout, 
branched, scurfy, flat, terminal cymes, from three to five inches in 
diameter. Bracts and bractlets, triangular, green, caducous. 
Calyx.—Tubular, equally five-toothed, persistent. 
Corolla.—Rotate, equally five-lobed, imbricate in the bud, cream- 
white, one-quarter of an inch across; lobes acute, and slightly 
erose. 
Stamens.—Five, inserted on the base of the corolla, alternate with 
its lobes, exserted; filaments slender; anthers bright yellow, ob- 
long, introrse, versatile, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. 
Pistil.—Ovary inferior, one-celled ; style thick, short, light green ; 
stigma broad ; ovules one in each cell. 
Fruit.—Fleshy drupe, crowned with the calyx tube, borne on 
slender, drooping, red stalks, in few-fruited clusters, oval, flattened, 
thick skinned, black or dark blue, glaucous, sweet, and rather juicy. 
Stone oblong oval, flattened. September. 
The Sheepberry is one of the largest of the Viburnums. It is admired for its 
compact habit, its lustrous foliage which insects rarely disfigure, its beautiful 
and abundant flowers, its handsome edible fruit and its brilliant autumnal color. 
It readily adapts itself to cultivation, and is one of the best of the small trees of 
eastern America for the decoration of parks and gardens in all regions of ex- 
treme winter cold. It is easily raised from seeds which, like those of the other 
American species, do not germinate until the second year after they are planted. 
—CHARLES 8S. SARGENT. 
There is a softness and richness about the flowers and foliage of the Sweet 
Viburnum which distinguish it above all others of the same genus. 
—GEORGE B, EMERSON. 
The one that seems to me to bear the most resemblance to the English Way- 
faring-tree is the Sweet Viburnum. Many of our shrubs produce more showy 
flowers, but few surpass it in the beauty of its fruit. The berries are of the size 
of damsons, hanging profusely from the branches like clusters of grapes. They 
are dark purple when ripe with a lustre that is not seen in the grape. Just 
before they ripen they are crimson, and berries of this color are often blended 
with the ripened fruit. 
—WILSON FLAGG. 
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