EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
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high, and forms a dense bush twenty-one feet in diameter. Grafted 
standard high on the thorn or any of its cogeners, this shrub forms 
a singular and beautiful evergreen drooping tree ; or it will cover 
a naked wall nearly as rapidly as ivy.” Flowers white in May 
and June. Berries bright-scarlet, ripe in August, and remaining 
on all winter. Not hardy at Rochester. 
THE AUCUBA. Aucuba japonica. 
An evergreen shrub from Japan, six to ten feet high. The 
leaves are pale-green, spotted with yellow. It is one of the most 
ornamental of variegated-leaved shrubs in England, but requires 
protection in our northern States, and is not classed as more than 
half-hardy at Rochester. It is in some locations healthy and 
beautiful, but not usually so north of Philadelphia, nor anywhere 
so fine as in England. 
THE JAPAN EUONYMUS. Euonymus jap 07 iicus. 
Evergreen or sub-evergreen trees and shrubs of many and 
widely differing characters, which are not hardy north of New York, 
and which have not been tested sufficiently to enable cultivators 
to judge them well. Among them are many variegated-leaved 
varieties. 
THE DAPHNE CNEORUM. 
An evergreen dwarf shrub or trailing plant of great beauty, 
which has become very popular during the short time it has been 
in cultivation in this country. It is a native of the mountains 
of Switzerland, growing naturally in moist soils and sheltered 
places. The flowers are a bright pink color, in April, and again 
in September. As a shrub it should be grafted on stocks of the 
Daphne laareola. Height one to two feet. Hardy. 
