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tion to a particular point, or to create variety with other trees. 

 Flowers in May, quite small, pale yellow, and fragrant. Fruit red- 

 dish-brown ; insipid. Height fifteen to twenty feet. Half-hardy. 



THE MISSOURI SILVER-TREE. E. argentea. A fastigiate small 

 tree, with whitish-colored small leaves, and rather a pendulous dis- 

 position of its spray. A fine specimen is growing near the Seventh 

 Avenue entrance to the Central Park, in an exposed locality, which, 

 in September, 1868, was fifteen feet high and eight feet broad ; and 

 was quite showy by reason of the whiteness of its foliage and its 

 graceful growth. Flowers small, yellow, in July and August. 

 Fruit about the size of a small cherry ; the flesh dry and mealy, 

 but eatable. 



THE JAPAN OLEASTER, E. japonica, and the small-flowered E. 

 paniflorus, are shrubs noted for their whitish foliage. 



THE FOTHERGILLA. Fothergilla alnifolia. 



A dense-foliaged, low, and very spreading native shrub, which 

 thrives only in partial shade and moisture, and requires some pro- 

 tection at the north. Leaves obovate, bluntly serrated, and downy 

 beneath. Flowers small, white, in terminal spikes, sweet-scented 

 and appear before the leaves in April and May. 



THE FORSYTHIA. Forsythia viridissima. 



A large spreading shrub, of brilliant green foliage, and strag- 

 gling willow-like sprouts and growth. Its luxuriance, the earliness 

 of its bright small yellow flowers, and the fact that it is a compara- 

 tively new thing, has given this shrub a reputation that it may not 

 sustain. It is a little tender north of New York, and when young 

 and growing rapidly the summer growth should be headed back, 

 about the first of October, one-half its length. At the west end of 

 Lake Erie it kills back winters in consequence of continuing its 

 growth too late in autumn. Its leaves hang on late in the fall 

 almost with the persistency of an evergreen. Height and breadth 



