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The Euonymuses are valuable for their foliage, and 

 for the fact that they thrive admirably near the sea. 

 The most attractive forms are variegated varieties of 

 Japonicus, which are marked with silver (argentea 

 variegata) and gold (aurea variegata) ; latifolius albo- 

 variegatus is also very good. Radicans Silver Gem and 

 variegatus are pretty little silvery-leaved plants for the 

 rockery, and are evergreen. Europgeus, the Spindle 

 Tree ; and Americanus, the Strawberry bush of the 

 United States, are grown for their bright fruit. In good 

 soil they make large bushes. 



Eurya Japonica (syn. Fortunei) has a particularly 

 good variegated form in latifolia variegata ; angustifolia 

 is another form ; these are evergreens. 



Eurybia Gunniana is the same as Olearia Gunnii. 



Exochorda grandiflora, the Pearl Bush, is not new, 

 but should be mentioned as an uncommon and beautiful 

 deciduous shrub that might be included in a collection 

 of choice plants. 



The Forsythias show no special developments, but 

 they are too useful, owing to their early and profuse 

 blooming, to be overlooked ; they bloom in winter in 

 advance of the leaves. Suspensa is the most popular 

 species, and there are two forms of it in cultivation, one 

 more upright in habit than the other. There is a varie- 

 gated form of the other well-known species, intermedia. 



The Snowdrop Tree, Halesia tetraptera, is one of the 

 older kinds which should be mentioned for the purpose 

 of stimulating readers to grow what is one of the most 

 distinct and beautiful of all plants for a shrubbery. It is 

 a spring bloomer. 



Genistas are referred to under Brooms. 



The Hamamelises, or Witch Hazels, are beautiful for 

 winter blooming, and entirely distinct from i any other 



