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usually been made under her direction, are given. 
The prints supplied to be chosen from for this 
purpose furnish such an embarrassment of riches 
that the difficulty has been to omit enough to leave 
room for any other matter in this month’s issue of 
Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gakden- 
INC. Those shown may be said to have been 
chosen at random, though each was made with a 
view to pointing a moral even more than adorning 
a tale. F. C. S. 
wii.D THORNS ON RIVER SHORE. — Likely to be destroyed. 
THE VIBURNUlVIS IN THE 
SOUTH, 
IBURNUM OPULUS, the 
garden Snow-ball of Amer- 
ica, the Guernsey Rose of 
England, needs no descrip- 
tion. It is a denizen of all 
old-time gardens, and as 
well, is still a favored flow- 
ering shrub of all new and 
choice plant collections. The large, light- as- snow, 
pure white balls of blossoms cover the bush some- 
what in advance of the leaves. They have the 
occupancy all to themselves, unobscured by leaves. 
So well do the flowers improve this favor of nature 
that the big white snow-balls cover the bush, in 
dazzling white, from top to bottom. They bloom 
at Easter-tide or first of May, according to climate. 
In New Orleans the snow-ball blooms freely in 
March, sometimes in February. 
The new Japanese Snow-ball, or Viburnum 
Plicatum is a decided improvement upon this old 
standard sort. The foliage is most beautifully 
waved, crinkled and scalloped around the edges. 
The large, fluffy, soft, white balls of blossom are 
fuller of flowrets, and each flowret is of more sub- 
stance, more nicely fluted and crimped than the 
Viburnum Opulus, or Cranberry tree. This latter 
is the name the early botanies gave the shrub in 
its natural state with its flat cymes surrounded 
with large white ray-flowers. Arboretums are sad- 
ly deficient in plants that fail to have Viburnum 
Opulus and Plicatum. 
There are others of this class that are of dis- 
tinguished appearance. Viburnum Pubescens and 
Viburnum Acerifolium naturally are shrubs of low 
growth and neat form. They both have abundant 
white flowers and brilliant autumnal foliage. Both 
of these Viburnums grow to neat tree size in New 
Orleans. Many flowering shrubs grow to the size 
of fruit or shade trees in the Mississippi Delta. 
Viburnum Dentatum and Viburnum Molle are 
particularly showy. They are large, bold shrubs, 
with sharply cuttleaves, and full clusters of lovely 
white flowers succeeded by dark blue seed berries. 
All berry bearing plants are desirable, as they 
preserve their attractions long after their bloom- 
time has passed and gone. Dentatum blooms 
fully ten days ahead of Molle, therefore the two 
go well together. 
The parks in New Orleans have very handsome 
specimens of Viburnum Lentago and Viburnum 
Prunifolium. These two are the largest of them 
all. They frequently grow twenty feet high, with 
beautifully formed crowns, the branches spreading 
evenly around. Viburnum Lentago is known as 
the Black Ham, the fruit ripening after frost and it 
is very palatable. The snowy-white flowers of this 
native tree are showy and beautiful. The haws 
or fruit, each with one seed, hang on bright red 
