. Eyes and no eyes. red tassels in most gardens. It was first broughtfrom North America, and has spread all over Eng-land. You will easily know it, because its leavesare very like those of the currant-bushes in thekitchen garden, and its pretty hanging clustersof red or pink flowers are shaped like the littlegreen blossoms of our currants and gooseberriesThen in the autumn it has hanging bunches ofdark berries, which are not good to eat. A pieceof Ribes cut oft and stuck in the ground will growwithout any trouble. Another very pretty bush flowers in early summer. 58 TREES AJ^TD SHRUBS. This is
. Eyes and no eyes. red tassels in most gardens. It was first broughtfrom North America, and has spread all over Eng-land. You will easily know it, because its leavesare very like those of the currant-bushes in thekitchen garden, and its pretty hanging clustersof red or pink flowers are shaped like the littlegreen blossoms of our currants and gooseberriesThen in the autumn it has hanging bunches ofdark berries, which are not good to eat. A pieceof Ribes cut oft and stuck in the ground will growwithout any trouble. Another very pretty bush flowers in early summer. 58 TREES AJ^TD SHRUBS. This is the Barberry, whose small scarlet fruitsused at one time to be put inside sugar barberry is an interesting shrub, for it hasturned some of its leaves into thorns, so that ateach joint there is a three-pronged thorn, as wellas the smooth, fringed leaves. The wildbarberry has yellow flowerswith bright red anthers, butthere is a garden kind withever-green leaves,which has deeporange-colouredflowers. They are. THE AVILD BARBERRY. small and, hang in along spray,and if you areclever you can■A try an experimentwith either the wildor garden carefully at one of the flowers and youwill see that the six stamens are spread out, onelying down vipon each petal. At the bottom ofthe petal, near the middle of the flower, are twobags, out of which oozes honey in drops. Thesticky stigma on the top of the seed-box standsup in the middle of the flower. (rABDEN SHRUBS IN BLOOM. 59 Now take a needle and touch one of the stamensfit its base, just where the honey drops are. It willjump up, as if moved by a spring, and touch thesticky stigma, then after a Httle vvhile it ^vill falldoTV n again. Now when a bee puts her head in forhoney she irritates the stamen so that it jumps upand hits her and she carries the pollen-dust toanother flower. Or the anther leaves some pollenon its own stigma, before it falls down again. But we must go on, for when the March windsand April showers
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