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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 showiest 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 and on 

 the point opposite ; here is the common witch-hazel, of eastern 

 North America, from which the extract of witch-hazel, or 

 Pond's extract, is made, the Japanese witch-hazel, and also 

 a Chinese representative of this genus; the spiked cory- 

 lopsis, a Japanese shrub, belongs here, as do the fother- 

 gillas of the southeastern United States. 



The rose family occupies a large area, beginning just 

 north of the gooseberries and currants and extending west- 

 ward to the main north and south driveway, and south- 

 ward along that as far as the first transverse path; here 

 belong the spiraeas, of which there are many forms, the 

 blackberries, the raspberries, the roses and others. Among 

 the spiraeas, the steeple-bush or hard-hack and the willow- 

 leaved meadow-sweet, or quaker-lady, are common as wild 

 plants in this latitude. Other interesting forms are 

 Thunberg's spiraea, from Japan, and other Japanese 

 spiraeas. Among other plants of interest in the group 

 which contains the spiraeas are the Chinese pearl-bush, 

 a native of northern China, with its profusion of white 

 flowers in early summer; the Japanese rose, from Japan, 

 not a true rose, however, with bright yellow flowers; 

 another shrub from Japan, known to the natives of that 

 country as siro yama buki, bears large white flowers re- 

 sembling in appearance those of the mock orange; two 

 other Japanese shrubs, members of the same genus, and 



