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gardens, and is truly one of tlie most ornamental shrubs or low 
trees known. It is suited either to mass with other deciduous 
plants or for grouping with low evergreens, or as a single plant. 
Its large clusters of white flowers early in May, and large, broad 
foliage, which toward autumn changes to a bright red, make it 
always handsome. There is a double-flowering variety, and 
several with variously shaped foliage ; the lantana-leaved — 
Fig. 63. — Silver Bell. 
lantanoides — being the best. The high bush cranberry — vibur- 
num oxy coccus — is less ornamental in its flowers, but is more so 
in its fruit ; and besides, it may be made to serve economically in 
the use of the fruit as a substitute for cranberries, while it fills a 
