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diseases, and hardy, it combines aU the qualities of an ornament of the 

 first order. The two species are best used together on banks and as 

 ground cover for early flower effect: 



* F. suspensa Vahl., especially var. Fortimei (73), with golden- 

 yellow flowers and lustrous dark green and persistent foliage, is the 

 best. Not hardy in Ottawa. 



* F. viridissima Lindl. (74), more frequently planted, is more erect, 

 less graceful, and with flowers of greenish-yellow color, but foliage 

 brighter green. It is said to be less hardy than the preceding. 



Ligustrum. Privet. Some thirty-five species of small trees and 

 shrubs from Europe, Asia, and Australia, with numerous varieties, are 

 valuable for their frugality and hardiness, as well as for their orna- 

 mental features, especially in the foliage, some of them being eiwr- 

 greeti. Some four or five species are planted, especially for hedges and 

 screens, although they are apt to thin out at the base. They can be 

 used for formal planting, like Box, and blend well with evergreens. 

 They stand clipping well, and thrive in any soil. 



*L. vidgare Linn. (75), the Common Privet from Europe, is well 

 known as a hedge plant, although it also makes a good show in corners 

 and borders with its well-rounded, compact form (six to ten or even fif- 

 teen feet high), and upright panicles of small, white, fragrant, tubular 

 flowers in profusion (June, July), followed by black berries. It is the 

 hardiest and most adaptive of its tribe; half-evergreen. 



*L. ovalifolium Hask. (76), caXXed California Privet, although really 

 from Japan, has a larger (two inches), thicker, more persistent (almost 

 evergreen), glossier, but less dense half-evergreen foliage than the 

 preceding, and is more rapid, vigorous, and compact in growth. It 

 is hardy into New England, even in exposed (seaside) positions, is 

 shade-enduring, but needs a good soil. It grows taller and more erect 

 than the former (twenty feet), but is readily trimmed. It is useful for 

 hedges, borders, screens, windbreaks, and for binding soil on banks. 



* L. Amnrense Carr. (77) (Ibola), also from Japan, deciduous, hardier 

 than the preceding, and almost hardy in Manitoba; more slender, grace- 

 ful, spreading, and cun-ing, and smaller (six to ten feet), and with more 

 fragrant flowers (midsummer), in drooping clusters, is perhaps the best 

 of the genus, both for specimen and mass planting. 



The evergreen privets from Japan and China (L. Japonicum) (78), 

 Quihoui (79), Sinense (80), not being hardy, are fit only for southern 

 planting. 



