DECIDUOUS SHRUBS.. 
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tion to a particular point, or to create variety with other trees. 
Flowers in May, quite small, pale yellow, and fragrant. Fruit red¬ 
dish-brown ; insipid. Height fifteen to twenty feet. Half-hardy. 
The Missouri Silver-tree. E. argentea. —A fastigiate small 
tree, with whitish-colored small leaves, and rather a pendulous dis¬ 
position of its spray. A fine specimen is growing near the Seventh 
Avenue entrance to the Central Park, in an exposed locality, which, 
in September, 1868, was fifteen feet high and eight feet broad; and 
was quite showy by reason of the whiteness of its foliage and its 
graceful growth. Flowers small, yellow, in July and August. 
Fruit about the size of a small cherry; the flesh dry and mealy, 
but eatable. 
The Japan Oleaster, E. japonica, and the small-flowered E. 
paniflorus, are shrubs noted for their whitish foliage. 
THE FOTHERGILLA. Fothergilla alnifolia. 
A dense-foliaged, low, and very spreading native shrub, which 
thrives only in partial shade and moisture, and requires some pro¬ 
tection at the north. Leaves obovate, bluntly serrated, and downy 
beneath. Flowers small, white, in terminal spikes, sweet-scented 
and appear before the leaves in April and May. 
THE FORSYTHIA. Forsythia viridissima. 
A large spreading shrub, of brilliant green foliage, and strag¬ 
gling willow-like sprouts and growth. Its luxuriance, the earliness 
of its bright small yellow flowers, and the fact that it is a compara¬ 
tively new thing, has given this shrub a reputation that it may not 
sustain. It is a little tender north of New York, and when young 
and growing rapidly the summer growth should be headed back, 
about the first of October, one-half its length. At the west end of 
Lake Erie it kills back winters in consequence of continuing its 
growth too late in autumn. Its leaves hang on late in the fall 
almost with the persistency of an evergreen. Height and breadth 
