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the vicinity of roads. It puts forth its many-flowered 
cymes, in scent resembling the hawthorn, towards the 
middle of May, and perfects its berries in autumn, 
which in an immature state are red on the outside and 
yellow on the other, but which when fully ripe are 
quite black. 
This tree belongs to a genus containing many species, 
of which the favourite little winter-flowering shrub lau- 
rustinus is one, and the well-known elder another. A 
very elegant variety may be met with in almost every 
ornamental plantation. Who is not familiar with the 
garden guelder-rose, or snowball, which when in bloom 
harmonises so well with all the gayer shrubs of spring? 
How beautifully descriptive of its general appearance 
and mode of growth are these lines by Cowper, where, 
however, he groups it with more sombre associates; for 
he speaks of it, as 
“ Throwing up into the darkest gloom 
Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, 
Its silver globes, light as the foamy surf, 
That the wind severs from the broken wave.” 
It has also been sketched by the elegant pen of Miss 
Landon:— 
“ Here the guelder rose shall fling 
Silver treasures to the spring.” 
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