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ing and comforting in pose and the thought conveyed. 
It is an acceptable piece of modeling, and in the aca- 
demic draping of the shroud, one feels the delicate 
taste and handling of the texture that displays the 
sentiment of the artist. The figure is life size, and 
was cast by Bureau Bros., of this city. It is the crown- 
ing figure of the Hubbard memorial, to be erected at 
Montpelier, Vt., on a massive Barre granite pedestal. 
Jones Bros., of Barre, Vt., are the contractors. 
His Villard memorial is as notable for the tablet form- 
ing the background, which introduces two bay-trees 
at the corners, recalling the style of some of the mod- 
ern German designers and decorators. The nude youth 
resting from his labor at the anvil, hand relaxed around 
the handle of the heavy hammer, typifies most fittingly 
the arduous and masterful life of the man it com- 
memorates. 
Of animal subjects there was a number, by Borglum, 
Eli Harvey, Roth and Proctor. C. W. CanPikld. 
A GROUP OF EUONYMUSES, 
One of the most ornamental little trees in the fall 
garden is Euonymus latifolius, the large-leaved 
Euonymus. This is a native of the south of Europe, 
but seems perfectly hardy in our gardens. Under 
favorable conditions it attains the height of twenty 
feet. As it grows here, however, it is a slender, up- 
right bush or small tree, not more than ten feet in 
height, with abundant light-green foliage ; the leaves 
from two to four inches in length. The little green- 
ish flowers come in May and are insignificant. The 
fruit begins to turn in August. It is scarlet, and opens 
in four parts, showing the orange red seeds within. 
This open fruit is in the shape of a biretta, and in 
Erance is called Bonnet de prctrc. Its Spanish name is 
Boncte de clerigo, and its Portugese name is Birette 
de clerigo. This one of the most beautiful of the 
Euonymuses. 
' The European Euonymus, E. Europeus, is some- 
times found in a wild state, naturalized from Europe. 
It is, in every respect, an inferior shrub to the one 
just described, and the fruits comparatively small and 
dull in color. 
Some of our native species are, however, well worth 
growing. Euonymus Americus is one of the best of 
these. In cultivation it makes a bushy plant about six 
feet in height, with an erect habit of growth, ash-col- 
ored twigs, thick ovate or oblong leaves, small green- 
ish-pink flowers in June, succeeded by rough-warted 
brilliant red capsules, so abundant as to give it the 
name of Burning-bush. 
Euonymus atropurpureus is another showy and de- 
sirable species. It sometimes forms a tree twenty-five 
feet in height. The rather thin, ovate-oblong leaves 
vary in length from one to five inches. The purplish 
flowers are small, but the smooth bright-colored and 
deeply Icbed capsules are very ornamental in effect. 
Euonymus Japonicus is very different in appearance 
from any that we have been describing. It is ever- 
green with glossy, dark green, oval, or nearly orbi- 
cular leaves. It forms a bushy shrub from six to ten 
feet in height, and if it were reliably hardy, it would 
be a very valuable Evergreen. Unfortunately it win- 
ter-kills badly in severe weather. Here, it sometimes 
dies down to the ground, but is never entirely killed. 
A little group of these evergreens is effective in the 
winter shrubbery, for the beauty of their foliage, but 
they seldom fruit in northern gardens. Farther 
south they are probably more satisfactory. There are 
a number of variegated varieties, pretty for green- 
house decoration. 
Much hardier and more satisfactory is the beautiful 
Euonymus Sieboldianus, which has larger dark-green 
leaves, oval or acuminate, or sometimes rounded like 
the preceding, with waved and slightly dentate mar- 
gins. These leaves are from two to four inches in 
length, smooth, but not so thick and glossy as those of 
E. Japonicus. 
This beautiful and rare Euonymus forms, as it 
grows here, a bushy and denselv foliaged plant, six feet 
in height and ten in circumference. Unlike any other 
species known to me, it flowers in August, at which 
time the bush is covered with little greenish-white 
flowers, a third of an inch across, in numerous spread- 
ing panicles. These prett}' little flowers, which are 
more consificuous than those of any other species, are 
sweetish to the taste, from the nectar they exude, and 
are the resort of myriads of flies and gnats, who collect 
around them in swarms. 
In some catalogues this Euonymus is listed as an Ev- 
ergreen, but this is a misnomer, at least in this climate. 
The foliage persists sometimes until Christmas, but it 
gradually shrivels and falls off. Sometimes a few 
leaves remain, in mild winters, until pushed off by the 
burgeoning of the buds in spring. Yet it is no more 
an Evergreen than the Beech, which, also, has per- 
sistent foliage. 
It seems perfectly hardy. The specimen here is 
twelve years old, and has been unaffected by the sever- 
est winters that we have had in that time, although it 
is planted in a very exposed position on top of a hill. 
It sets fruit abundantly. The capsules are small 
and brilliant red, so freely produced as to make the 
bush a very showy object throughout the fall. 
Besides the bush Euonymuses, the climber, Euony- 
mus radicans, and its variegated varieties, are useful 
for covering the ground in the shade under shrubs, and 
for walls. These climbers are of very slow growth, 
but in the course of time they make a beautiful wall- 
cover. They form roots similar to those of the Ivy, 
by which the branches attach themselves firmly to any 
support. DanskE DandridgE. 
