96 TOWN PLANTING 



(Euonymus latifolius), with its bright, shin- 

 ing-green leaves and purplish-white, freely- 

 produced flowers, is also at home in the town 

 garden. It is a very desirable species, 

 whether used as a single specimen or planted 

 with others to form a shrub group. 



EUONYMUS JAPONICUS is another excellent 

 shrub, one that succeeds admirably wherever 

 it is planted. It bears trimming well, and 

 so can easily be kept to any required dimen- 

 sions. For free growth and a hardy nature 

 it has few equals. It is not particular as to 

 soil, is an excellent dry-weather plant, easily 

 propagated and almost smoke-defying. The 

 silver and golden forms are most useful 

 town shrubs, for they succeed well in very 

 smoky and filthy localities. They are plants 

 of great beauty, particularly the variegated, 

 of easy culture, and not at all particular as 

 to soil in which they grow. E. radicans is 

 a straggling, decumbent shrub, and, as it 

 stands soot and smoke well, is suitable for 

 planting as a dwarf plant in the town garden 

 or square. The double-flowered variety of 



