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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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w Crystals. Snow-ball, or Guelder Rose, any one of the varieties of several species of riburnum (Cafri-foliacccc) m which the flowers are all sterileand showy. The cranberry bush (Iibuniumopidus) is the original snow-ball, common toEurope and America, and a handsome shrub,often 12 feet in height, with grayish bark, andalternate three-lobed leaves. The flowers arenormally arranged in peduncled cymes, the cen-tral florets being small, 5-merous, and fertile,surrounded by a few neutral flowers, with flat,white corollas expanded to an inch in breadth.The cultivated form of this is a sport, whereall the flowers are sterile and expanded intosnowy spherical masses. Certain similar Japan-ese and Chinese sports of V. tomcntosum and/. macrociIhalum have been introduced intoAmerica, the latter having flower-heads nearlyas large as those of hydrangeas, and both beinghardy, tall, strong-growing shrubs with hand-some foliage. They are supplanting the old-fashioned I, ofulus which suffers from aphis.
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FORMS OK SiNOW CKVSIALS. SNOW-BERRY —SNOW PLOW Snow-berry, a name applied to severalwhite-fniited plants, among tlu-m the rubiaceousChiococca raccmosa of tropical America, aclimbing plant with yellow flowers and whiteberries. It has medicinal properties, and theroot, known as calunca-root, was used as adiuretic. The cultivated snow-berry (^Syiiil<lwri-car(<us raceinosus) is a small, smooth, muchbranched shrub of the honeysuckle family, com-mon in northern North America. It has oppo-site oval leaves, and inconspicuous rose-coloredflowers in racemes, often leafy. While of some-what sprawling habit, snow-berries are valuablebecause of their power of increasing rapidlyby suckers, and for their ornamental white,pulpy berries, borne in such abundance as tobend down the slender branches, and retainedfar into the winter. The creeping snow-berryis another northern plant (Cliiogcncs hisjidula),an evergreen trailing shrub, found in sphagnumbogs and mountainous evergreen woods. It ispubes

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