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a dense white felt. It is a shrub from five to ten feet 

 tall, compact in habit and has broad flat heads of dirty 

 white rather foetid flowers succeeded by handsome 

 fruits which as they ripen change to pink and crimson 

 and are finally jet black. Somewhat similar in aspect 

 to the preceding is V. buddleifolium but its leaves are 

 smaller and thinner and are scarcely wrinkled and its 

 flowers more showy. 



One of the most charming of recently introduced 

 evergreen shrubs is Lonicera nitida which is lovely as a 

 lawn shrub, of unique value for making low hedges, 

 and may be trimmed and used in the manner of Box for 

 edging garden paths and flower beds. It grows from 

 three to six feet tall and has innumerable rigid, twiggy, 

 ascending and spreading branches densely furnished 

 with small glossy green leaves ; the flowers are yellow- 

 ish-white, small but very fragrant, and the fruits are 

 bluish purple. This shrub roots readily from cuttings 

 and grows freely and rapidly in any ordinary garden 

 soil. Akin to the preceding is L. pileata which has 

 similar flowers and fruits but larger leaves, not shin- 

 ing, and low-spreading and prostrate in habit. 



Of evergreen Privets two new-comers (Ligustrum 

 Henry i and L. Delavayanum (better known as L. Prattii) 

 are worthy of recognition. The former has rather 

 short and broad shining green leaves and the other 



