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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
soil seems best to suit the wants of the box tree, and a partial 
shade from southern suns is requisite to enable it to retain its 
foliage. 
Evergreen Thorn — Pyracantha. — The fiery or evergreen 
thorn — cratmgiLS pyracantha — is an evergreen shrub, at present 
only to be found occasionally in some amateur’s grounds, but 
highly deserving a place everywhere that ornament or beauty 
is sought to be created. 
As a single plant, it has rare attractive features in its clusters 
of white flowers, blooming in the month of May, followed by 
round brilliant scarlet berries, that often remain on a great part 
of winter, and from whence its name of fiery thorn. In forming 
low-growing hedges, it is one of the very best plants, as it is 
perfectly hardy, and bears the shears as well as other thorns. 
Our engraving shows a plant with a few clusters of flowers. 
Any good rich garden soil will answer to grow it. 
Cotoneaster. — The cotoneaster is a family of plants that for 
