mountain-ash, is among the prime ornaments of the Canadian forest; elegant in form, beautiful in its delicate leaves and branches, very handsome in flower, and quite brilliant in its profuse flat clusters of scarlet berries, which long continue to enliven even the months of winter. The choke-cherry is also very ornamental, particularly when it grows as a large shrub, in which case it often assumes, when it has free scope, a very ample and rounded form. Its dropping clusters of flowers, when they have passed into fruit, give the name to the plant, among the French, of cérise à grappes. I should have been glad, for the sake of many of my hoped-for readers, to have given the botanic names and scientific classification of some dried flowers which I gathered on the route; but my part here is - quod non didici, sanè nescire fateri. |