. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 2664. Viburnum Opulus (X %). Single form of the common Snowball as it grows : i the wild. tions under trees. The foliage assumes a handsome dark purple fall color. 27. paucifldrum, Raf. Straggling shrub, attaining 5 f
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 2664. Viburnum Opulus (X %). Single form of the common Snowball as it grows : i the wild. tions under trees. The foliage assumes a handsome dark purple fall color. 27. paucifldrum, Raf. Straggling shrub, attaining 5 ft.: lvs. orbicular to oval, coarsely dentate, with 3 short lobes above the middle or often without, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath when young, 2-3% in. long: cynies few-fld., small, on lateral, short, usually 2-lvd. branchlets: fr. scarlet, subglobose. June. Labrador to Alaska, south to Vt. and Colo, in the mountains. 3:5.—It does not usually succeed well in cultivation; requires shade and moist porous soil. 28. Gpulus, Linn. (1". Americ&num, Mill. , Marsh. V. opuloides, Mtihl. , Pursh. V. Oxy- cdccus, Pursh.). Cranberry-bush. High Cranberry. Figs. 2664, 2665. Shrub, attaining 12 ft., with rather smooth light gray branches and stems: lvs. broadly ovate, 3-lobed, with coarsely dentate-serrate, acumi- nate lobes, pubescent or almost glabrous beneath, 2-4 in. long: fls. white, in peduncled cymes, 3-4 in. broad: fr. subglobose to oval, scarlet. May, June. New Bruns- wick to Brit. Col., south to N. J. and Ore.; also in Eu. and Asia.— Handsome native shrub, very decorative in fruit, which begins to color by the end of July, remains on the branches and keeps its bright scarlet color until the following spring. The berries are not eaten by birds. Var. nanum. Jacq. A very dwarf, compact, small- leaved form; flowers but very rarely. Var. sterile, DC. ( V. rbseum, and rosh- ceum, Hort.). Guelder Rose, Snow-ball. Fig. 2666. All fls. sterile, form-
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