Snow Wreath

Snow Wreath (Neviusia Alabamensis) - Introduced in 1882, the objection generally made to it is that the flowers, instead of a snowy whiteness, are a dingy green. The foliage resembles that of Spiraea opulifolia. Of this shrub Mr John Saul, of Washington, U.S.A., has written: "Large bushes in my nursery were covered with flowers of the purest snow-white. The small flowers, from their immense number and purity and their light airiness, could be likened in justice to waves of flickering snow. It appears quite hardy, as it passed through 10 degrees. of frost on four nights last winter, which killed many tender subjects, without being harmed in the least. It is easily raised from suckers, which spring up in numbers around the parent plant and can be taken of with roots attached."