Trees and shrubs of Central Park . e cymes, and arevery beautiful, just before they open, from the palepinkish-purple flush that suffuses them. As they open,they become cream-white. These flowers are succeededby dark-purple berries, whose stones are is a pretty shrub, and very beautiful just as it be-gins to bloom. It may be interesting to add that the viburnumsbelong to the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliacece, in-cluding the elder, the Indian currant or coral berry, thesnowberry, and the Weigela (Diervilla). Generallyspeaking this great group CaprifoliacecB, is character-ized by
Trees and shrubs of Central Park . e cymes, and arevery beautiful, just before they open, from the palepinkish-purple flush that suffuses them. As they open,they become cream-white. These flowers are succeededby dark-purple berries, whose stones are is a pretty shrub, and very beautiful just as it be-gins to bloom. It may be interesting to add that the viburnumsbelong to the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliacece, in-cluding the elder, the Indian currant or coral berry, thesnowberry, and the Weigela (Diervilla). Generallyspeaking this great group CaprifoliacecB, is character-ized by having the stamens of their flowers about asmany as there are lobes of the corolla. In the eldersand the viburnums, the corollas are shallow wheel-shaped or urn-shaped; in the coral berries and snow-berries, the corollas are bell-shaped; in the honey-suckles (Lonicera) and the Weiglas (Diervilla) the 2l6 corollas are funnel-form. They are among the loveliestof the shrubs to bloom and in June, especially, theWeigelas are
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