TREES AND SHRUBS 



Introduced from Nepaul, 1804. One of the most ornamental of evergreen 

 shrubs. Several varieties with variegated leaves are in cultivation. 



BROAD-LEAVED SPINDLE TREE, Euonymus htifoKus. 



Shrubberies, gardens, lawns. June. 



Flowers white, becoming purple as they fade ; Inflorescence a many- 

 flowered trickotomous cyme ; Petals oval, ovate ; Fruit a 4-lobed capsule, 

 somewhat winged, purple, with orange arillus. 



Leaves oblong-elliptical, serrated, glabrous, glossy green. 



A deciduous shrub, 0-8 ft. ; Branches smooth, somewhat compressed ; Buds 

 opposite, acute. 



Introduced from Europe, 1803. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division II. . . . Calyciflorce 

 Natural Order . . . Rhamnece 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, stipulate leaves, and small green or yellowish 

 cymose flowers, sometimes unisexual ; Calyx 4-5-toothed, valvate in bud ; 

 Petals 4-5, minute, or obsolete ; Stamens 4-5, epigynous, opposite petals, alter- 

 nate with calyx lobes, other versatile ; Ovary 3-4-celled, free or sunk in fleshy 

 disk ; Fruit a capsule, or drupaceous and indehiscent. 



ALATERNUS, Ehamnus Alaternus. 



Shrubberies. A shrubby evergreen, in general appearance resembling a 

 Phillyrrea. It succeeds well in all but heavy, wet soils. April — June. 



The genus Bhamnus contains some sixty species, of which about thirty are 



hardy shrubs or trees, but few are valuable from a garden standpoint. They 



do well in sunny or shady shrubberies in ordinary soil. They are propagated by 



cuttings in ordinary soil in September; by layering in March or September; 



or seeds sown outdoors in autumn. 



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