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mental point of view. The following 
kinds, known also under the names of 
Oleasters and Silver Shrubs, belong to 
the finest and most beautiful of all our 
ornamental plants and thrive particularly 
well on high and dry pineland. All of 
these kinds are half climbing, densely ev¬ 
ergreen and of unique beauty. They all 
flower in November, perfuming the air 
to a great distance with their clove-like, 
or rather carnation-like odor. A little 
after New Year the bushes are covered 
with a profusion of oblong berries, which 
can be utilized for making jelly. The 
masses of new leaves, which appear in 
early April or late in March, are beauti¬ 
ful silvery white above and almost pure 
white underneath. When mature they 
are dark glossy green above and silvery 
below with numerous minute brown dots. 
Elaeagnus reflexa with blunt recurved 
hooks along its rampant shoots is the 
tallest grower. I have masses of them in 
my wild garden among young pines, 
which they cover completely. The shoots 
grow 15 to 30 feet in a few seasons. They 
are well adapted for covering young oaks, 
camphor trees, wild cherry trees, etc. 
The flowers are small whitish, of clove¬ 
like form and exhale a strong and most 
delicious perfume during November. The 
young shoots are cinnamon brown. 
E. pangens is not quite as rampant a 
grower but it soon forms dense masses 
of foliage and branches. The leaves are 
larger, deeper green and the branches are 
of a dark grayish color. The fruit is 
large and reminds of currants in taste. 
I have hybridized these two species and 
obtained a distinct kind with large fine 
fruit. 
There are silvery and golden forms of 
this species and all are beautiful. All 
grow well in rather dry soil. E. macro- 
phylla , the Large-leaved Silver Shrub, is 
perhaps the most beautiful of this group. 
It is a rampant and dense grower. All 
are well adapted for pergolas, garden 
houses, for ornamental hedges and for 
large groups among other trees. They 
are also fine as isolated specimens. They 
should be found in all our gardens. 
Pittosporum Tobira is an old inhabitant 
of our Gulf Coast gardens. In Mobile I 
have seen trees 20 to 25 feet high, em¬ 
bellished with a dense crown of glossy 
deep green oval foliage. The creamy or 
sulphur colored flowers, appearing in 
dense trusses at the ends of the shoots, 
are about as fragrant as orange blossoms. 
There was a fine tree of this pittosporum 
in the rear of the court house in Orlando, 
fully 15 feet high, but it has disappear¬ 
ed. 
Its variegated silvery form is rather 
dwarf ? forming dense flat heads about 5 
to 6 feet high. 
The Loquat, Eriobotrya Japonica is. 
one of the most beautiful ornamental 
trees we have. Its fine form, its large 
plaited foliage, its sweet-scented flowers, 
and its conspicuous fruit-clusters combine 
to make it an object of rare beauty. 
Daphniphyllum glancescens and D. ma- 
cropodon, Aucuba Japonica, Skimmia 
Japonica, the charming and deliciously 
fragrant Daphne odor a, thrive best in 
deep shade and in rich soil. All are very 
valuable evergreens of rather low growth. 
Damnacanthns Indians, a little spiny 
shrub with white fragrant flowers and 
red berries, grows in similar situations. 
