SNOWBALL SUNDAE

 SNOWBALL SUNDAE 

Put a No 12 scoop of ice cream rounded full so as to rep resent a ball into a sundae cup and pour over it a ladle of snowball dressing.

Viburnum 
Gueldre Rose or Snowball Bush 

The most familiar of the genus is V. Opulus, a native shrub. Its sterile-flowered variety, sterilis (the Snowball Bush) may be found in every shrubbery, and though, so common, it is among the best of all shrubs. In early summer on a lawn a fine specimen of the Snowball Tree when covered with bloom is one of the finest sights to be seen in an English garden. Next in importance is V. plicatum,- a very beautiful hardy shrub from N. China. It is a dwarf spreading bush, with deeply-wrinkled foliage. In summer every branch is wreathed with clusters of snow-white flowers, larger and whiter than those of the common Snow ball Tree,  is  but equally sterile. V. plicatum grows freely in most places, but it likes a good soil and in cold localities, a warm sheltered spot. It is a shrub of the highest merit, and should be included in the choicest selections.  

In moist hedgerows the guelder rose is often a conspicuous feature, either in the early summer,when the tree is covered with a mass of white blossom, or in the autumn, when these clusters of flowers are replaced by bunches of crimson berries, and the whole plant (both stems and foliage) glows with the same brilliant hue a brilliancy of colouring that makes it very conspicuous amongst the surrounding foliage. The guelder rose, or snowball tree of our gardens, is merely a variety of this. It is the plant alluded to by Cowper in the following lines:

 "Throwing up into the darkest gloom 
Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, 
Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf 
That the wind severs from the broken wave."

By Cowper

According to some writers, the name was originally rose-elder, the elder-like tree that bears flowers like roses; and the transposition into elder-rose, followed by a slight corruption, results in the present name, guelder-rose. This explanation is a very unsatisfactory one. The tree is not much like the elder; in fact, the chief point in which they agree is similarity of situation, and the heads of the flowers are not even on the most cursory glance, a bit like roses. According to other writers, it derives its name from a place called Gueldres, in Holland. This version is still less satisfactory, since it is inexplicable why the name of a small Dutch town should thus be attached to one of our indigenous trees. The botanical name of the shrub is the Viburnum opulus.

The trees that line the hedgerow or form the forest shades must not be altogether omitted, though we can give them but scant attention, as they are to some extent outside the limit the floral boundary that we have assigned ourselves. As, however, from their grandeur they have not escaped the poets' notice, neither must we be altogether unmindful of their claim to our regard.  

References:

1. What Every Ice Cream Dealer Should Know Daly Bros Manufacturing Corporation Schenectady NY,1914 

2. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN STYLE POSITION & ARRANGEMENT FOLLOWED BY A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE BEST PLANTS FOR IT THEIR CULTURE AND ARRANGEMENT FOLLOWED BY A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE BEST PLANTS FOR IT THEIR CULTURE AND ARRANGEMENT BY W ROBINSON F.L.S. ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY ENGRAVINGS THIRD EDITION LONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET 1893 

3.BARDS AND BLOSSOMS OR The Poetry History and Associations of Flowers 

BY F EDWARD HULME FLS FSA AUTHOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENTAL ART PLANTS THEIR NATURAL GROWTH AND ORNAMENTAL TREATMENT & C  

London MARCUS WARD & CO 67 & 68 CHANDOS STREET STRAND AND ROYAL ULSTER WORKS BELFAST 1877 

4. FLORA AND SYLVA 1904