Another pretty shrub, of smaller size, is the poison alder.

It is well that its noxious qualities are very generally known, for it is most tempting to the eye by its delicate fringe-like bunches of white flowers.
Even the touch of this shrub is poisonous, and produces violent swelling.

The arbor judae is abundant in every wood, and its bright and delicate pink is the earliest harbinger of the American spring.

Azalias, white, yellow, and pink; kalmias of every variety, the too sweet magnolia, and the stately rhododendron, all grow in wild abundance there.

The plant known in England as the Virginian creeper, is often seen climbing to the top of the highest forest trees, and bearing a large trumpet- shaped blossom of a rich scarlet.