OUR NATIVE TREES AND SHRUBS. 215 
whether it hang out its bright yellow flowers or its crimson 
berries. 
Of course the Sumachs would claim a place with their 
variety of flower, fruit and leaf, at least the Staghorn Sumach 
(Rhus typhina), with its red velvety branches; R. glabra, as 
smooth as the last is shaggy, and R. copallina, with its leaves 
looking as if varnished. 
The New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus Americanus), with its 
spikes of delicate white flowers, demands a place, as well as 
admiration. 
Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens), also called Roxbury 
Waxwork, so well known as having given a name to one of 
the most charming rural poems in our language, is a hardy 
climber, vigorous amd luxuriant in summer, and very con- 
spicuous in autumn, with its scarlet seed coverings set in 
orange linings, as is its first cousin the Waahoo (Huonymus 
atropurpureus), with its crimson drooping fruit, not uncom- 
mon in cultivation. 
The Red-bud, or Judas Tree (Cercis Canadensis), with 
its branches all aflame in early spring, is a small, graceful 
tree. 
Spirea opulifolia, is an attractive variety, while the 
Meadow Sweet (S. salicifolia), and the Hardhack (9. to- 
mentosa), so valuable as a medicine, were they only less 
common, would be eagerly sought for their beauty. 
The Shad-bush (Amelanchier Canadensis), heralding along 
the Connecticut, “the first run of shad,” is a favorite where- 
ever known, while the Witch Hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), 
closing the floral procession of the season with its weird, 
wrinkled yellow flowers in October, and even November, is 
not to be neglected. 
The Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida), beautiful alike 
in its snowy profusion of flowers and its bright red berries, 
is less known and far less cultivated than its merits deserve. 
It is hardy, with bright green leaves, and ought to become 
common, as our most showy shrub or small tree. 
