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deciduous flowering shrub, bearing large white flowers 

 like a St. John's Wort, with bright-yellow anthers. 

 A specimen at Trewidden is 8 feet in height. 



EUONYMUS FIMBRIATUS. Japan and India. This 

 shrub is chiefly remarkable for the tint of its young 

 leafage, which is bright crimson, and gives a vivid, 

 flower-like effect at a little distance in April. Met 

 with at Tregothnan and Abbotsbury. 



EUPATORIUM WEINMANNIANUM. South America. 

 This soon grows into a rounded bush 10 feet or so 

 in height and as much in diameter. It bears its 

 flat heads of fragrant white flowers in autumn and 

 well into winter, the flowers being succeeded by fluffy 

 seed-vessels. It is quite common. 



EURYA LATIFOLIA. Japan. Half-hardy. An ever- 

 green shrub, with leaves somewhat like those of a 

 Camellia, bearing small white flowers. There is a 

 variegated form that at one time was used for green- 

 house decoration. Tresco. 



FABIANA IMBRICATA. Chili. A charming ever- 

 green heath-like shrub, bearing a profusion of pure- 

 white tubular flowers clustered thickly around every 

 shoot. A fine example 8 feet in height is at Trelissick, 

 but it is a common plant in the south-west. 



FAGUS CLIFFORTIOIDES. The New Zealand Beech. 

 A tree with minute leaves, which have given it the 

 name of Birch in its native land. In New Zealand 

 it is evergreen, but in this country is deciduous. A 

 good specimen is at Enys. 



FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA. An extremely handsome 

 deciduous flowering shrub, bearing bright-yellow, 



