SYMPHO'RIA RACEMO'SA. 
SNOWBERRY. 
• Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIAS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
4 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1817. 
No. 117. 
The generic appellation of this delicate deciduous 
shrub is intended to express its habits of producing 
closely clustered bunches of fruit, a correct idea of 
which is best obtained from an inspection of the ac- 
companying figure. It was formerly called Sym- 
phoricarpos, from the Greek Sumphoreo, to heap 
together; and carpos, fruit. Racemosa, from the 
Latin ; significant of its numerous clusters. 
This elegant plant will properly assist in adorn- 
ing the foreground of the shrubbery ; or it may still 
be more advantageously shown, in separate small 
bushes, scattered over the lawn, or in breaking the 
tameness of an open grassplot. Here its beautiful 
slender branches will spontaneously spring from the 
roots, and gracefully bending under the weight of 
their snow-white berries, and second crop of flowers, 
form an object of no small attraction# 
It is easily increased by laying the suckers, which 
are produced in abundance ; or, indeed, by a sepa- 
ration of them, as they soon put out fibrous roots, and 
admit of being parted. It is sometimes raised from 
seeds, but the practice is comparatively tedious, and 
offers no advantage in return. 
30 Bot. Mag. 2211. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
