Hi 



LAWN AND SHADE TEEES. 



canus is known in various places under the different names of 

 strawberry tree, spindle tree, burning bush, etc., etc., and 

 although common is a much prized and very ornamental shrub 

 tree. The varieties are all good and desirable, as decorative 

 plants especially, when they can be used in connection with low- 

 growing evergreens, that assist in bringing more prominently 

 forward their bright rose-colored, crimson, or white fruit, which 

 ge;xerally hangs on all winter. The difference in the American 

 or European varieties, so far as ornamental use is regarded, is 



Fia. 60. — Sfib^a Pbunitolia Flore Pleno. 



mainly in the stronger growth of the European, it sometimes 

 making a tree of fifteen to twenty feet high, while the American 

 rarely grows over eight to twelve feet. The broad-leaved 

 variety, latifolia, is the handsomest in its foliage, and should be 

 used when only one plant is wanted. 



The Spanish Bkoom — Oytisus. — The Oytisua var. eapitatus, 

 Jiirsutus, and others, are small slender- growing plants, more 

 singular than handsome. They are not perfectly hardy, often 



