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The Siberica, or rather C. sangutnea of Siberia, is a good hedge 

 plant. Much like some of our own thorns, but I think of rather 

 faster growth. Good hedges of it at Riga lo feet high. In the 

 College Gardens at Petrovskoe, Mr. Shroeder points it out as per- 

 fectly hardy, so too is Crus-gali. Nigra also is all right. Mono- 

 gama has a pretty cut leaf, and is fairly hardy, not as hardy as the 

 above. 



OYTISUS— Laburnum. 



Here again are some hardy forms although the same species 

 from Scotland will not endure our cold winters. 



In the Botanic Gardens at Munich we found Alpinus growing 

 to a height of over 35 feet, with a dozen trunks from 5 to 12 

 inches in diameter. 



In the severe climate of Orel, in Central Russia, we find a tree 

 of Alpinus which seemed quite hardy. The Northern nurseries all 

 grow Cytisus, and these hardy varieties are well worth looking up. 



; ELEAGNUS-WUd OUve. 



This is a race of bright silvery-leaved trees and shrubs of great 

 ornamental value. 



In the grounds of the Pomological School at Proskau, we find a 

 shrub three feet high, with gray, silvery leaves three inches long and 

 an inch or more wide. We saw it again in the Botanic Garden at 

 Moscow, apparently hardy. It was not named. This is very 

 ornamental and should not be lost sight of. 



E. angustifolia. In moderate climates this grows to a large 

 size. At Warsaw we find a tree two feet in diameter of trunk and 

 30 feet high, old, and on its decline. In the cold climate of Orel 

 we saw a tree 35 feet in height, but I do not remember it farther 

 north. It has long narrow leaves, white on under side, bright 

 and pretty. Of its blossom and fruit I cannot speak. 



E. longipe, of Japan, we saw at Kew ; a shrub six feet high, 

 bearing large quantities of spotted red berries, like oblong cran- 



