JAPAN SNOWBALL (Viburnum plicatum) 
A new variety of Snowball from Japan. Growth upright and compact. Foliage, olive green through the 
summer, but toward fall it turns much darker and remains on the plant for some time after the first frosts. 
Flowers, though hardly as large as the old variety, are much more numerous. The leaves are in pairs along the 
stem, and from the base of each leaf a ball of flowers appears. There are often as many as ten pairs of these, or 
twenty balls, on a branch eighteen inches long. These balls, as they expand, all face upward, so that a full view 
of their great beauty is always to be had. To be a universal favorite a shrub must be hardy, easily transplanted 
and its growth of good shape and beautiful both in leaf and flower, and the Japan Snowball embraces all of 
these points to the fullest extent. See page 25. 
