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distinct and beautiful shrub, with deep glossy-green, pinnate 

 foliage, and bearing large, pure-white flowers often 3 inches 

 across that are rendered all the more conspicuous by 

 the golden-yellow anthers. As an ornamental shrub it is 

 well worthy of cultivation. In so far as its hardihood in 

 this climate is concerned, it may be mentioned that in 

 various parts of England and Ireland it has stood in the 

 open ground unharmed for several years back. Light, 

 sandy, well-drained peat and a sunny situation would seem 

 to meet with its requirements. 



Eugenia. See Myrtus. 



Euonymus (Celastrineae). 



EUONYMUS AMERICANUS. American Spindle Tree. North 

 America, 1686. This is a deciduous or semi-evergreen 

 shrub, of about 6 feet in height, found over a wide area in 

 Canada and the United States. It is of partially erect 

 growth, with long and lithe branches, covered with 

 pleasing light-green bark. The greenish-purple flowers 

 appear in June, and are succeeded by rough, warted, 

 brilliant-scarlet capsules, which are particularly showy 

 and attractive. It likes a shady situation, and rich, rather 

 damp soil. 



E. EUBOP^US. West Asia, Europe (Britain), etc. An 

 indigenous species, rarely exceeding 6 feet in height, with 

 greenish white, foetid flowers. This shrub is rendered very 

 effective in autumn by reason of the pale-scarlet fruit, 

 which, when fully ripe, and having split open, reveals 

 the orange-coloured arils of the seeds. It, too, delights 

 to grow in the shade. 



E. FIMBRIATUS, Japan and India, and its handsome 

 variegated form, E. fimbriatus foliis variegatus et argenteo 

 rnaculatus, are rather too tender for cultivation in this 

 country, even in southern districts, and where afforded 



