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when ripe split open and reveal the shining scarlet- 

 coated seeds. C. scandens has orange-coloured seeds. 



CORIARIA JAPONICA is very beautiful in autumn, 

 when it succeeds as well as it does with Canon Ella- 

 combe at Bitton, the fruits being covered then 

 with the persistent petals which are of a lovely coral 

 red. 



CORNUS CAPITATA (Benthamia fragifera) only suc- 

 ceeds to perfection in the south-western counties ; 

 its strawberry-like red fruits are very handsome. 



COPROSMA ACEROSA is a dwarf New Zealand shrub 

 suitable for the rockery ; it has variously-shaded, 

 transparent, blue-green berries. 



EL^: AGNUS MULTI FLORA (or E. longipes) is the most 

 ornamental in the genus with regard to its fruits. 

 They are remarkably abundant, orange-coloured, and 

 specked with reddish scales. 



EUONYMUS EUROP^EUS, our native " Spindle tree," 

 is most beautiful in autumn, when, after a favourable 

 season, it is covered with its open red fruits revealing 

 the orange-coloured seeds within. 



FRAXINUS MARIESII is one of Messrs. Veitch's in- 

 troductions from Japan, and is a dwarf tree, one of 

 the " Manna " Ashes ; the thin keys are of a bronzy- 

 red colour and pretty. 



GLEDITSCHIA TRIACANTHOS is the " Honey Locust." 

 The pods are not brightly coloured, being at first 

 green, then brown, but they are long, thin, and 

 wavy, like crooked scimitars, and hanging in numbers 

 on the tree ; have a very curious and (in this country) 

 uncommon aspect. 



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