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which clothe with a rich verdure the rocks and precipices 
that overhang the moving flood below. 
The berries which succeed these blossoms become quite 
red and brilliant in autumn ; and, as they are plentifully 
borne in little clusters, they make quite a display. When 
the sharp frosts have lessened their bitterness, they are the 
food of the robin, which, at that late season, eats them 
greedily. 
The foliage in autumn is also highly beautiful, and must 
be considered as contributing to the charms of this tree. 
The color it assumes is a deep lake-red ; and it is at that 
season as easily known at a distance by its fine coloring, 
as the Maple, the Liquidambar, and the Nyssa, of which 
we have already spoken. Taking into consideration all 
these ornamental qualities, and also the fact that it is every 
day becoming scarcer in our native wilds, we think the 
Dogwood tree should fairly come under the protection of 
the picturesque planter, and well deserves a place in the 
pleasure-ground and shrubbery. 
The wood is close-grained, hard, and heavy, and takes 
a good polish. It is too small to enter into general use, but 
is often employed for the lesser utensils of the farm. The 
bark has been very successfully employed by physicians in 
Philadelphia, and elsewhere, and is found to possess nearly 
the same properties as the Peruvian bark. Bigelow states 
in his American Botany, that its u»e in fevers has been 
known and practised in many sections of the Union by the 
country people, for more than fifty years. 
Besides this native species there is an European 
dogwood ( Cornus mascula), commonly called the Cornelian 
cherry, which is now planted in many of our gardens, and 
grows to the height of twenty or thirty feet. The small 
