342 List of Shrubs 
fruit. It is given to suckering, which is, however, prevented or 
impeded if planted in turf. 
* FE. longipes Gray (68), the ‘‘ Goumz” from Japan, is perhaps the 
best ornamental olive; a small, hardy (?) tree, generally growing in 
shrub form (five to eight feet), with numerous, slender, reddish-brown 
branches. The thick leaves are dark green above and silvery-white 
to brownish beneath, the fragrant flowers are yellowish white, covered 
with brownish scales, and the cranberry-like, edible fruit (July), bright 
red with white dots, which hangs for a long time on the long stalks, 
heightens the color effect. The fruit makes a fine jelly. 
E. umbellata Thunb. (69), a spiny, spreading shrub (twelve feet), 
from Japan; in foliage similar to longipes, but with yellowish to sil- 
very branches, and currant-like, amber-colored, pendent fruit, speckled 
with white, which ripens in November, making a rare and beautiful show. 
E. angustifolia Linn. (horiensis) (70), Russian Olive, a low shrub to 
small tree, from southern Europe to the interior of Asia, with foliage 
light green above and silvery-white beneath, and silvery spines, and 
branches, with yellow flowers and yellow berries. Stock from its 
southern range is tender, but that secured from northern Russia has 
proved hardy even in the Dakotas and Manitoba, being deeply rooting 
and leafing out late. It can be easily grown from cuttings. 
E. macrophylla Thunb. (71), a graceful, medium-sized, spineless 
shrub from Japan; as yet rare, and untried as to hardiness, is entirely 
distinct, being evergreen, with large, round leaves, light gray above 
and pure white beneath, silvery branchlets, clusters of greenish-yellow 
to creamy-white flowers in autumn, and silvery-white fruit. It is one 
ef the finest species of its genus. 
E. reflexa Thunb. (72), also native of Japan, is another evergreen, 
with very large (two to four inches) leaves, dark green above and sil- 
very with brownish scales beneath; flowers similar to the preceding; 
but branches bronze-brown — a fine contrast if combined with the pre- 
ceding. 
Forsythia. Golden Bell. Furnishes two species, both from China; one 
of the showiest shrubs; early flowering (before the leaves), low (eight to 
ten feet), of fine, pendulous form, with handsome, long, persistent foli- 
age, and a profusion of yellow flowers. The blossoms are borne on 
the previous year’s wood, and hence, for best flower effect, the shrub 
should not be pruned in winter, but immediately after flowering, when 
new branches will at once form readily. Adapted to all soils, free from 
