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colors a beautiful red in the fall; and the large-toothed bar- 

 berry, from Nepal; the mahonias are represented by the 

 erect Oregon grape, from northwestern North America ; and 

 the Japanese mahonia. The magnolia family occurs a little 

 back from the path, between the crowfoot and barberry fami- 

 lies; there are here several species of shrubby magnolias. 

 The strawberry-shrub family follows the barberries, imme- 

 diately across the path from the cercis-leaf family; here may 

 be found several species of the strawberry-shrub, including 

 the hairy one which has the fragrant flowers scented like the 

 strawberry; the fragrant Chimonanthus , from Japan, is a 

 member of this family, and is known to the natives there as 

 karamume. A short distance to the eastward of the cercis- 

 leaf family is the laurel family, represented by the spice-bush 

 (Benzoin) , a native of northeastern North America; as the 

 different kinds of flowers, staminate and pistillate, are borne 

 on different plants, only those having pistillate flowers bear 

 the bright red berries in the summer and autumn. To the 

 west of this is the Virginia willow family, with shrubs of 

 the Virginia willow, a native of the southeastern United 

 States. To the north of this is the hydrangea family; here 

 may be found the syringas, the deutzias and the hydrangeas, 

 several species of each; the mock orange (Philadelphus) , a 

 native of Europe, indicates its presence by the rich fragrance 

 of its flowers; the slender deutzia, from Japan, bears its long 

 slender clusters of white flowers in great profusion; the 

 large-flowered hydrangea, a Japanese plant, bears a profusion 

 of large bunches of white flowers, which in the late summer 

 and autumn change to a beautiful rose color; the oak-leaved 

 hydrangea is perhaps the oddest member of this genus; it Is 

 native from Georgia and Florida to Mississippi. Following 

 the hydrangea family comes the gooseberry family, and to 

 this belong the currants and gooseberries; one of the show- 

 iest is the long-flowered golden currant, from western North 

 America ; its rich yellow flowers give forth a delicious spicy 

 fragrance. The witch-hazel family is located to the north of 

 the north path; here is the common witch-hazel, of eastern 



