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the winter. It needs protection from the sweep of cold winds. 

 In Highland Park several varieties have been grown for many 

 years on a south slope in well-drained light soil. The different 

 varieties of Buxus sevipervirens are not well understood. The 

 var. Handworthii has an upright bushy habit with deep green 

 large leaves and is an unusually good form. Var. angusti- 

 folia has narrow leaves with an upright loose habit, and is 

 very distinct. Var. navicularis was introduced from Europe 

 thirty years ago; it has a very upright habit with narrowly 

 elliptic leaves, yellowish-green underneath. The common type 

 form is a loose habited bush with roundish-oval leaves, convex 

 on the upper surface. The different forms of the common box 

 suffered considerably in the winter of 1917 and 1918, but in 

 ordinary seasons they stand the cold very well. The Japanese 

 box, B. microphyUa var. japonica, is very hardy. It forms a 

 spreading bush with light green lustrous leaves, and is a very 

 desirable evergreen. 



Henry's honeysuckle, Lonicera Henryi, is a climbing vine 

 introduced recently from China. The lance-shaped deep green 

 leaves, two to three inches long, present a very pleasing effect 

 when spreading over the ground. When fully exposed to the 

 winter's sun, the foliage is only partially evergreen. V^lien 

 covered with snow all winter, the leaves appear green and fresh 

 in March. This is an excellent plant for slopes and banks. 

 Lonicera pileata, from western China, is a low prostrate shrub 

 with small oval leaves. It is quite hardy and well adapted 

 to rock-gardening. It retains the leaves remarkably well 

 throughout the winter. 



Viburnum rhytidophyllum, native of western China, is a 

 very bold handsome shrub. The large oblong deep green leaves, 

 markedly covered with a grayish-green tomentum underneath, 

 are very distinctive. In an ordinary or average winter, the 



