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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



canus is known in various places under the different names of 

 strawberry tree, spindle tree, burning bush, etc., etc., and 

 although common is a much prized and very ornamental shrub 

 tree. The varieties are all good and desirable, as decorative 

 plants especially, when they can be used in connection with low- 

 growing evergreens, that assist in bringing more prominently 

 forward their bright rose-colored, crimson, or white fruit, which 

 generally hangs on all winter. The difference in the American 

 or European varieties, so far as ornamental use is regarded, is 



FIG. 60. SPIRAEA PIUTNIFOLIA FLORE PLENO. 



mainly in the stronger growth of the European, it sometimes 

 making a tree of fifteen to twenty feet high, while the American 

 rarely grows over eight to twelve feet. The broad-leaved 

 variety, latifolia, is the handsomest in its foliage, and should be 

 used when only one plant is wanted. 



The SPANISH BROOM Cytisus. The Cytims var. capitatus, 

 hirsutus, and others, are small slender- growing plants, more 

 singular than handsome. They are not perfectly hardy, often 



