ARBOREIUM NOTES. 91 
CELASTRAG HE: 
EUONYMUS LATIFOLIUS. 
Loudon, v. 2. 498. 
Of this there are many good plants here; it 
thrives exceedingly, is very hardy (not having 
suffered from the winter of 1860-61), and fully 
deserves all that Loudon says in its praise. The 
ripe fruit in September, the rich rose colour of the 
capsules, with the brilliant orange coloured seeds 
hanging out, are most beautiful; and _ nearly 
at the same time the leaves change colour, first to 
a rich vinous purple-red, and then to a _ bright 
crimson, before they fall. In summer, too, the 
foliage is much handsomer than that of the 
common Euonymus. It flowers with us in May ; 
and both ripens its fruit and sheds its leaves much 
earlier than the Europzus. 
Though we have several plants of this species 
standing by themselves on the lawns, not mixed 
with other shrubs, I do not perceive that it 
has any tendency, as Loudon says, to form a 
tree; it always (with us) is truly a shrub, though 
a large and tall one; 7. ¢., it always has numerous 
nearly equal stems, springing up side by side from 
the same root. 
Euonymus 
latifolius 
