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the lower land below, to the east of the path, is the Virginia 

 willow family, with shrubs of the Virginia willow, a native 

 of the southeastern United States. Across the path from 

 this is the hydrangea family; here may be found the 

 syringas (Philadelphus), the deutzias and the hydrangeas, 

 several species of each; the mock orange (Philadelphus 

 coronarius), a native of the Caucasus, Armenia, and 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 lawn hy- 

 drangea 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 and is a 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 golden currant, 

 native from South Dakota to Texas, its rich yellow flowers 

 giving 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 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 common 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 hairy 

 meadow-sweet are common as wild plants in this latitude. 

 Other interesting forms are Thunberg's spiraea, from 

 Japan, one of the earliest to flower, and other Japanese 

 spiraeas. Among other plants of interest in the group 



