Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
pleasing feature; but in hedge-form, when the new 
shoots are closely cropped, there is little opportunity for 
blossoming. ‘The commonest is the English privet or 
prim, in two or three varieties, with berries black or 
yellow, and leaves box-like or variegated. The so- 
called California privet is a case of false credit, as it 
really originates in Japan. This is quitea feature in the 
Park, especially on the south declivity of Bolivar hill, 
on the extreme west side, where it forms a miniature 
grove, most noticeable in fall, when its remarkable 
foliage retains all of its spring freshness. 
Not to be confounded with viburnum is laburnum, the 
latter a leguminose genus, whereas viburnum is in the 
honeysuckle family. Laburnum has no American rep- 
resentative, but two or three beautiful foreign species 
are in the Park, with pinnate leaves and yellow flowers 
in long pendent racemes, whence the name of golden- 
chain. They are upright, arborescent shrubs, of fem- 
inine figure, and an effective growth amid sturdier 
forms. 
Another leguminose genus is Colutea, with bright- 
green compound leaves, and making a brave show of 
yellow blossoms that are followed by almost translucent 
bladdery pods, so hardy as to grow at the very summit 
of Mt. Vesuvius. ‘The commonest species is called 
bladder-senna. 
The thorns—Cvategus—are often classed as shrubs, 
assuming indifferently the forms of shrub and tree ; but 
having already been considered as trees, they may here 
be passed over. 
No lawn should be without a Kerria japonica, also 
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