Unfortunately, the shrub would not be in flower at this season; but if we can find one of the berries, and a leaf or two, I fancy I shall be able to identify it.

Besides, the bark, which is very tough, would help to guide us.

Indeed, I have some reason to think that we shall find it not far off; and that is why I speak with such confidence, in saying, that we might not be so deficient in the materials for paper-making." "What reason, brother Karl?
Perhaps you have seen something like it ?" "I have.

Some time ago, when I was strolling about, I passed through a thicket of low shrubs--the tops of which reached up to my breast.

They were then in flower--the flowers being of a lilac colour, and growing at the tops of the branches in little cymes.