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The Purple-stemmed Guelder Rose {F. 

 phlehotrichum). — An erect shrub of 5 or 6 feet, 



by 2 or more wide, broadly lanceolate, with a 

 wrinkled upper surface lined with prominent 



with smooth branches and ovate leaves bearing veins and a coating of dense wool beneath. At 

 long hairs upon their veins beneath. The loose the ends of the shoots showy heads of crowded 

 few-flowered clusters upon slender nodding yellowish-white flowers appear, 7 to 8 inches 

 stalks open during May and June; the flowers j across. 



white with a deep purple-calyx and purplish , The Rust-clothed Guelder Rose {V. ru- 

 stalks. A pretty and distinct kind, assuming a I fidulum) . — A robust shrub or low tree from the 

 uniform dull yellow in-the autumn ; liable to Southern States, and formerly classed as a form 

 injury in severe winters. of the Plum-leaved Viburnum, differing in leaf 



The Plum-leaved Guelder Rose (V. and flowering a little later; it is now held to be 

 prunifoliutn). — A large shrub or small tree ot distinct. It is a low tree of 25 feet when full 

 spreading habit, reaching 20 or more feet, grown, its glossy leaves covered beneath with 

 beautiful in flower and thriving in dry stony j rust-coloured down. Its flowers are showy, pure 

 ground. Its leaves are bluntly oval, smooth < white, in broad heads of 4 or 5 inches, and suc- 

 and shining, with a 

 saw-like edge, recalling 

 those of thePlum orcer- 

 tain Pears. Its flowers 

 are pure white, frag- 

 rant, and very nume- 

 rous as heavy white 

 clusters of graceful ef- 

 fect, the long stamens 

 tipped withyellow con- 

 ferring an added charm. 

 The fruits are rather 

 large, bluish-black, and 

 covered with greyish 

 bloom. It is nearly al- 

 lied to V. Lentago, with 

 similarly fine foliage, 

 and not nearly so well 

 known as it deserves. 

 Easily raised from seed 

 and quite hardy. Syn. 

 V. pyrifolium. 



The Downy Guelder Rcse {V. pubescens). ceeded by large dark blue berries, half-an-inch 

 ■ — A compact bush of a fewfeei, with slender long, and very handsome. A kind worthy of 

 erect branches covered (particularly when wider use for its beauty of leaf, flower, and fruit, 

 young) with soft down. Found in Canada and Canary Island's Laurustinus [V. rigi- 

 the Northern States in dry rocky places, and a durri). — A dense evergreen of 6 feet, with stout 



THE DOWNY GUELDER ROSE (V. PUBESCENS). 



good shrub for similar spots in gardens. The 

 small dense clusters of white flowers develop 

 into dark purple fruits. An uncommon plant 

 of good habit, the long protruding stamens 

 giving the flowers a distinct appearance. 



The Larged-leaved Guelder Rose {V. 

 rhytidophyllum) . — One ofVeitch'snew Chinese 



hairy branches, tender in the open but succeed- 

 ing against walls in the warmer parts of Britain. 

 The leaves are broadly ovate, wrinkled and 

 hairy, with white flowers as large open clus- 

 ters in early spring; the oval berries are purple 

 when ripe. Brought from the Canaries in 1795. 

 Differs from the Common Laurustinus in its 



kinds, described as a handsome shrub of about larger and more hairy leaves and flower heads, 

 10 feet, and unlike any other of the group. Its but being tender and less free is of no great 

 leaves are very large, upwards of 8 inches long value. Syn. V. rugosum. 



