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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
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 
generally hangs on all winter. The difference in the American 
or European varieties, so far as ornamental use is regarded, is 
Fig. 60.— Spiraea Peunifolia 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 Broom — Cytisus . — The Cytisus var. capitatus , 
Jiirsutus , and others, are small slender- growing plants, more 
singular than handsome. They are not perfectly hardy, often 
