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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cales, becoming smooth anddark the second year. Leaves narrow-oblong or lanceolate ; i to 3^ ins.lo^» ti to § ins. wide ; dull green and scaly above, silvery scaly beneath ;Flowers 2 in. long, fragrant, produced in early June, one to three in each)eaf-axil of the young shoots. Each flower has a bell-shaped tube and four Er..EAGNUS 50n spreading lobes about as lon;^ as the tube ; silvery outside like the under-surface of the leaves, yellow inside ; stalk ^\ in, long. Fruit oval, A in. lon^,yellowish, silvery scaly ; flesh mealy, sweet. Native of S. Europe and W. Asia ; cultivated in England, according toAiton, since the sixteenth century. It is a striking tree, especially whenassociated with dark-leaved evergreens, because of the whiteness of the twigsand under-surface of the leaves. In this respect, however, it is not so remarkableas E. argentea, whose leaves are silvery on both sides, but it is a larger, better-shaped tree. A kind of sherbet is made from the fruit in the Orient. In
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El.^AfiNl^S AROKNTKA. Central Europe, especially in the parks and gardens of Germany and Austria,it is much planted, and as the foliage is much whiter under the continentalsun than it is in Britain, it often makes a very telling feature in the landscape. E. ARGENTEA, Purs/l. SlL\ ER BERRV.(Bou Mag., t. 8369.) A deciduous shrub, 6 to 12 ft. high, of thin, erect habit, with rather slenderbranches ; spreading by underground suckers ; young shoots covered with 50G EL.EAGNUS reddish glistening scales. Leaves oval to narrowly ovate, il to 2h ins. long,J to li ins. wide ; wedge-shaped at the base, rounded or pointed at the apex ;both surfaces white and lustrous with silvery scales ; stalk i in. long. Flowersproduced during May in great profusion in the leaf-axils of the young twigs,often three in each axil ; they are drooping, h in. long, with a stalk i; in. long ;narrow tubular, shining and silvery outside, yellow on the inside of the fourpointed lobes ; very fragrant. Fruit roundish, egg-s

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