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freely at Chelsea and in not a few of the East End 

 gardens. The Willow-leaved (H. salicifolia) , which is 

 of tree size, has attained to giant proportions and 

 succeeds well in the by no means pure atmosphere 

 of Regent's Park, where some of the specimens in 

 the flower garden are 40 feet high, with well-formed 

 stems that girth 4 feet and upwards at a yard from 

 the ground. These are unusually fine trees, the next 

 largest being at Cambridge, which is 47 feet in height. 

 It is more graceful though with less silvery foliage 

 than H. rhamnoides y and equally suitable for smoky 

 localities. 



Spindle Tree 



(Euonymus europceus) 



THE Spindle Tree is a native shrub or small-growing 

 tree that is found in copses and hedges in several 

 parts of England and southern Scotland. For its 

 ornamental qualities the Euonymus is well known, 

 owing to the seed-covering splitting open and revealing 

 the orange-red arils to view during the early winter 

 period. The leaves, too, turn crimson in autumn and 

 greatly add to the ornamental appearance of the shrub. 

 The four-sided shoots render young specimens of 

 the Spindle Tree ready of recognition, while the bark 

 is uniformly green and quite smooth, the leaves being 

 ovate-oblong, with finely serrated margins, and the 

 flowers small and of a greenish- white colour. The 

 whole plant has an unpleasant odour when bruised. 

 It succeeds well in every part of London. 



At one time the timber of our native Spindle Tree 

 was much in demand for the making of spindles 



