Fraxinus excelsior aurea, the Golden-barked Ash in its Winter, 

 erect or weeping form, whose name is sufficient description. Specimen 



Salix aurea pendula, a weeping form of the Golden Plants 

 Willow, which can be procured from Mr Bunyard of 

 Maidstone. 



Betula aurea. I have too recently received this new 

 Golden-leaved Birch, from Mr G. Paul of Cheshunt, to be able 

 to speak confidently as to the colouring of its wood in Winter, 

 but it mostly happens that the same cause, viz. insufficient 

 chlorophyll, which produces the yellow tone in the foliage, 

 makes for a like effect on the bark and twigs. 



Taxodium sempervirens, the Red-wood Cedar. 



Euonymus verrucosus, a rare deciduous variant of Spindle- 

 wood whose stem is covered with curious warts, and which 

 simulates to an extraordinary degree a rusty iron pole. 



Arbutus Unedo, which when old and untrimmed shows a 

 great deal of fibrous chocolate-coloured bark. It is none too 

 hardy north of London, but has flourished and fruited well 

 with us, surviving the terrible Winter of 1894-5. 



Stepbanandrajlexuosa has very delicate foliage, almost like 

 a Japanese Maple when seen a little way off; its very fine 

 waving twigs are a reddish-brown. I note that it suffered from 

 burning in the recent hot dry Summer. 



S. Tanak<z is a stronger, coarser, less compact form which is 

 hardly ever seen in England ; it is inferior in grace of foliage 

 and superior in the clear red of its twigs. The charm of either 

 is destroyed if the ends of the shoots be cut over, so they must 

 be allowed such room as they require. They are said to be allied 

 to the Spiraeas, but have little or no superficial resemblance to 

 them. 



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