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ERICA CARNEA SPRING HEATH 



A spreading-branched plant which, like other Ericas here mentioned, is 

 somewhat more pleasant in foliage aspect than Calluna. This species grows a 

 foot or more in height and displays its rosy-red flowers in very early spring. 

 This and other species of Erica, not being reliably top-hardy, are in inland 

 New England confined in use to specimens in the sheltered rock garden. 



Erica Tetralix CROSS-LEAF HeaTH 



This is the straggly Erica which has become naturalized in moist land on 

 Cape Cod. Its clusters of rosy flowers appear from June to the end of the 

 season. It can be used in sour, wet spots in the rock garden. 



ERICA VAGANS CORNISH Heath 



A somewhat tender-topped Heath which, after being frozen, can come back 

 from the base to a height of some fifteen inches. Its pinkish flowers are borne 

 in narrow, six-inch spikes. Like other Heaths and Heathers, its flower parts 

 are persistent. Var. kevernensis is a dwarf form. Various other varieties 

 based on floral color are also offered. 



Escallonla virgata 



A low-spreading, deciduous shrub which is the hardiest representative of its 

 genus. A leafy, white-flowered plant for the large rockery in warmer sections. 



EVONYMUS ALATA Winged Spindlewood 



A tall, broad, deciduous shrub which in old age intermingles its outer strati- 

 fied branches in a pleasant-appearing, symmetrically rounded bush some eight 

 or ten feet through. The corky wings projecting from the surfaces of the 

 young shoots and the red fruits are interesting details made obscure by the 

 foliage as the plant is seen in gross aspect. Its foliage turns a fiery red in 

 autumn, later dropping to reveal for the winter a most interesting plant 

 skeleton. Being fine rooted, adult plants can be shifted safely at any season 

 of the year. So finely compact are the root systems that adult plants trans- 

 planted into heavy soil have been known to starve rather than reach out new 

 roots into the strange medium with which they have been surrounded. Plants 

 grown to maturity in the open may be shifted into shady situations for screen 

 purposes. Var. compacta, Dwarf Winged Spindlewood, is a compact, 

 symmetrical, slow-growing, deciduous shrub which is fine in its own right as 

 a hedge or specimen plant but does not show the interesting stratification of 

 branches characteristic of the type. Its foliage shows high coloration in 

 autumn. 



EVONYMUS EUROPAEA European Burningbush 



A large, deciduous shrub or small tree growing to a height of twenty feet. 

 Its chief garden value lies in the autumn show of pink or red fruits which 

 break open to display orange seeds after the seasonably crimson leaves have 

 fallen. A plant which naturalizes readily. 



Evonymus nana 



A flopping deciduous shrub with greenish, angled branches, narrow leaves, 

 and pink fruits. It can be planted on banks or to fall forward at the top 

 of a large rockery. 



EVONYMUS OBOVATA RUNNING EuONTMUS 



A deciduous shrub which seldom becomes over one foot in height but runs 

 along in reasonably moist soil, rooting as it goes. A mat-forming plant which 



