148 EVERGREENS. 



ground. It bears numerous drooping dull-red 

 flowers, which are produced in the latter part of the 

 summer. 



EUONYMUS. Fwrnefort. 

 (Spindle Tree.) 



EUONYMUS JAPONICUS. Thunberg. 



An elegant shrub, indigenous to Japan, with erect 

 branches and habit like the Sweet Bay. Both hares 

 and rabbits are very fond of the leaves of this species, 

 as well as of all the varieties, of which there are 

 several ; some with silver-margined and striped leaves, 

 others with markings of a gold colour. All are highly 

 ornamental shrubs. In Japan the species grows twenty 

 feet high. 



FABIANA. 



FABIANA IMBRICATA. 



(Imbricated-leaved Fabiana.) 



In general appearance this very pretty plant resem. 

 bles a Heath. Its foliage is pale green, and flowers 

 white. They are about one-and-a-quarter inch long, 

 tubular, and are produced in great profusion early in 

 the spring. It thrives in any ordinary soil, or in peat 

 beds with American plants. 



