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isolated specimens with stems trimmed up are apt to sun 

 scald on the south side. 



The goumi [Elmagnus longipes) has also been noted as a 

 fruit (276); but its flowers are fragrant, and its reddish- 

 brown branchlets and its silvery-brown foliage with starry 

 hairs above give it interest and value as a shrub in the 

 Eastern and Southern States. West of the lakes it is 

 not hardy enough to endure the winters north of the 40th 

 parallel. 



343. Japan ftuince (Gydonia Japonica). — This is much 

 used for ornamental planting East and South; but it is 

 not hardy enough for the prairie States north of the 40th 

 parallel. The flowers are mostly scarlet, but varieties have 

 varied shades of red and some are pure white. As tjiey 

 expand before the leaves appear it gives a striking expres- 

 sion from a near or distant view. This is specially true of 

 the vividly scarlet variety. 



344. White Fringe {Oliionanthus Virginicus) . — This 

 is a special favorite. It has heavy dark -green foliage which 

 is ornamental through the season and when loaded with 

 its lace-like peculiar white flowers it attracts much atten- 

 tion. (Fig. 100.) It is quite hardy in sheltered positions at 

 the Forth. 



345. Purple Fringe [Rims cotinus). — This is popular 

 in the Eastern States under the name of Venetian sumach 

 or smoke-tree. It is a crooked, straggling grower, but its 

 large leaves are handsome and the flowers are in large pan- 

 icles, at first green, changing to a reddish-brown, and later 

 to a smoke color. The seeds or their appendages are 

 in light, airy masses, giving the idea of pnfEs of smoke 

 issuing from the handsome leaves. If grown slowly on 

 the grassy lawn it is hardy over most of the States. 



346. Cut-leaved Sumach. — The beautiful cut leaves of 

 this variety of Bhiis glabra give a fern-like expression to 



