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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART IH. 



Commercial Statistics. The species, being little in demand, is not generally 

 propagated in the London nurseries. E. e. latifolius is Is. Gd. a plant. At Boll- 

 \\yller, the species, the variegated-leaved variety, and the variety with white 

 capsules, are each 50 cents; and E.e. latifolius, 1 franc and 50 cents : at New 

 York,?. 



2. E. VERRUCO'SUS Scop. 



The \varted-barkcd Euonymus, or Spindle 

 Tree. 



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Identification. Scop. Carn., ed. 2. No. 268.; Jacq. Fl. Austr. ; Nouv. Du Ham. ; Schmidt Arb. ; Doc. 



Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 4. 

 Synnnymes. E. europae'us leprbsus Lin. Fil. Suppl., 154. ; Fusain galeux, ou verruqueux, Fr. ; 



warziger Spindelbaum, Ger. 

 Engravings. Nouv. Du Ham., 3. t 8. ; Schmidt Arb., t. 72. ; Jacq. Fl. Austr., t 49. ; and our Jig. 165. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Branches warted with promi- 

 nent lenticular glands. Leaves ovate, slightly 

 serrate. Flowers three on a peduncle. Petals 

 ovate; capsule bluntly 4-cornered. (Dec. 

 Prod., ii. p. 4.) A deciduous shrub of re- 

 stricted growth, and rather conical outline ; 

 not marked by any feature of foliage, notice- 

 able at a distance, that distinguishes it from 

 E. europae v us, but remarkable, and most dis- 

 tinct, on close inspection, in the warted cha- 

 racter of its branches. The bark is of a green 

 colour, and the warts of a dark one : they are 

 small, and very numerous. A native of Eu- 

 rope, particularly of Austria, Hungary, and 

 Carniola; introduced in 1763, and flowering 

 in May and June. The flowers are of a pur- 

 ple brown colour. This species is cultivated 

 in collections chiefly for the singularity of its 

 appearance; being among spindle trees what 

 the warted ash is among ash trees. It ripens seeds, and is readily in- 

 creased by cuttings. Plants of it, 10 ft. high, were in Loddiges's arbore- 

 tum in 1834. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost Is. Gd. each; at 

 Bollwyller, 1 franc. 



t 3. E. LATIFO'LIUS C. Bauh. The broad-leaved Euonymus, or Spindle 



Tree. 



Identification. C. Bauh. Pin., 428. ; Jacq. Hort. Vind., 2. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 4. 



Synonymes. E. europa'us var. 2. Lin. Sp., 236. ; Fusain k larges Feuillcs, Fr. ; breitbliittriger Spin- 

 delbaum, Ger. 



Engravings. Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 289. ; Nouv. Du Ham., 3. t. 7. ; Hot. Mag., 2384. ; E. of PL, No. 2914.; 

 ourjig.\66. ; and the plate of the species in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches smooth. Leaves 

 broadly ovate. A shrub or low tree, a native 

 of Europe, and particularly of the south of 

 Germany, and of some parts of France and 

 Switzerland, where it grows to the height of 

 10ft. or 12ft., producing its greenish white 

 flowers in June and July, which become of 

 a reddish purple as they fade. Introduced in 

 1730. In British gardens, this forms much 

 the handsomest species of the genus, from its 

 broad shining leaves and its large red pendulous fruits, with orange-coloured 

 seeds, which, when the capsules open, are suspended from the cells some- 

 what in the manner that the seeds of the magnolias hang from their strobiles. 

 Even the wood of this species, during winter, is much handsomer than that 

 of any other, the branches being regularly divaricate, with a clean bark, of a 

 reddish green, and with long-pointed dark brown buds ; by which alone this 

 species may be distinguished from all the others. Unfortunately for this 

 species, it is generally treated as a shrub, and crowded among other shrubs 



