EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 591 



high, and forms a dense bush twenty-one feet in diameter. Grafted 

 standard high on the thorn or any of its cogeners, this shrub forms 

 a singular and beautiful evergreen drooping tree ; or it will cover 

 a naked wall nearly as rapidly as ivy." Flowers white in May 

 and June. Berries bright-scarlet, ripe in August, and remaining 

 on all winter. Not hardy at Rochester. 



THE AUCUBA. Aucuba japonica. 



An evergreen shrub from Japan, six to ten feet high. The 

 leaves are pale-green, spotted with yellow. It is one of the most 

 ornamental of variegated-leaved shrubs in England, but requires 

 protection in our northern States, and is not classed as more than 

 half-hardy at Rochester. It is in some locations healthy and 

 beautiful, but not usually so north of Philadelphia, nor anywhere 

 so fine as in England. 



THE JAPAN EUONYMUS. Euonymus japonicus. 



Evergreen or sub-evergreen trees and shrubs of many and 

 widely differing characters, which are not hardy north of New York, 

 and which have not been tested sufficiently to enable cultivators 

 to judge them well. Among them are many variegated-leaved 

 varieties. 



THE DAPHNE CNEORUM. 



An evergreen dwarf shrub or trailing plant of great beauty, 

 which has become very popular during the short time it has been 

 in cultivation in this country. It is a native of the mountains 

 of Switzerland, growing naturally in moist soils and sheltered 

 places. The flowers 'are a bright pink color, in April, and again 

 in September. As a shrub it should be grafted on stocks of the 

 Daphne laureola. Height one to two feet. Hardy. 



