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its brilliant and curious seed-vessels, that it is usually planted. 
The flowers are a greenish-yellow, in May and June, and incon- 
spicuous. The seed is enclosed in a capsule, which opens like a 
chestnut burr, showing a glowing crimson lining, from which the 
white and scarlet seeds are suspended by delicate threads, and re- 
main a long time on. the tree — sometimes all winter — and when 
contrasted with the snow around them, render the tree singularly 
brilliant. 
The Purple-flowered Euonymus, E. atropiirpureiim., is 
another native variety, distinguished by its purple flowers in June 
and July, and its narrower leaves. 
The European Euonymus. E. europceus. — This species has 
a smaller leaf than our own, and, we think, is not so handsome ; 
but the difference is slight in all respects. It becomes a tree of 
larger size, sometimes attaining a height of thirty feet. 
The Broad-leaved Euonymus. E. latifolius. — This is the 
most beautiful in foliage of the family, with leaves considerably 
larger than the others, quite abundant, and of a fine glossy green \ 
the fruit is also larger, and of a deep red color, more showy in 
quantity, but not so brilliant in color as the American sort. The 
decaying leaves turn to a fine purplish-red, and the naked branches 
are of a pleasing reddish-green. It forms a tree from ten to twenty 
feet high. One of the finest of shrubby trees. 
The Euo7iyi7tus radica7is is a new variety from Japan, recom- 
mended by Thomas Meehan, Esq., as a tree of striking beauty. 
There are several new variegated-leaved varieties from Japan, 
and some dwarf species, the beauty and hardiness of which have 
not yet been sufficiently proved to call for special notice. 
THE EL^AGNUS, OLEASTER, OR WILD OLIVE. 
Elceag7ius. 
The Garden El^agnus or Oleaster. ElcBag7ius ho7'tensis . — 
This is an old English garden shrub, a native of southern Europe. 
It is noted for the silvery whiteness of its foliage, and, on this ac- 
count, is often selected to plant where it is desired to attract atten- 
