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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. atropurpureum, is 
another native variety, distinguished by its purple flowers in June 
and July, and its narrower leaves. 
The European Euonymus. E. europcous. — 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 Euonymus radicans 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 ELzEAGNUS, OLEASTER, OR WILD OLIVE. 
Elceagnus. 
The Garden Elceagnus or Oleaster. Elceagnus hortensis .— 
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- 
