. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Oleacece—L ignstriim. 293 foliage. And there are white- and yellow-berried and gold and silver variegated varieties, as well as a weeping form. 2. L. Japoriiciun.—An evergreen robust-growing shrub with coriaceous larger and broader leaves than the foregoing and slightly fragrant ratlier larger flowers. There is a variety with handsome variegated foliage
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Oleacece—L ignstriim. 293 foliage. And there are white- and yellow-berried and gold and silver variegated varieties, as well as a weeping form. 2. L. Japoriiciun.—An evergreen robust-growing shrub with coriaceous larger and broader leaves than the foregoing and slightly fragrant ratlier larger flowers. There is a variety with handsome variegated foliage. 3. L. Sinensis.—An evergreen or quasi-evergreen shrub with slender pubescent branches and ovate-lanceolate leaves shining- above and hairy beneath. Plowers small, white. China. 4. L. lacldum, syn. L. ovallfdllam.—A pretty evergreen shrub with oval, ovate-lanceolate, elliptical or nearly rotundate leaves and white flowers. Native of Japan, and very near and probably a variety of L. Japonicum. 5. L. corlaceum.—A very distinct evergreen species of recent introduction, with dense glossy dark green coriaceous ovate- oblong obtuse leaves. 4 FRAXmUS (including Ornus). Trees with unequally pinnate deciduous leaves and polyga- mous or dioecious flowers in dense axillary clusters. Calyx 4- lobed or none. Corolla 4-lobed or none. Stamens 2, Fruit a flattened 1- or 2-celled samara or key, winged at the tip; cells 1-seeded. About thirty species are known, inhabiting Eu- rope, North Asia, and North America, where they are most numerous. Fraxinus is the Latin name of the common Ash. 1. F. Ornus, syn. Ornus Europuia (fig. 164). Flowering Ash.— This is so called on ac- count of the conspicuous clustered panicles of pure white petaliferous flowers pendulous at the extremities of the branches. A handsome small tree with somewhat hairy leaves, composed of 7 to 9 pairs of lanceolate shortly petiolulate leaf- lets. South of Fig. 164. Fraxinus Ornus. (Nat. size.). Please note t
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