442 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



attacked by antliracnose and by a bramble rust. The Liicretia is 

 a natiye of West Virginia. 



11. Bartel has found great fayor with some growers in the 

 west, from Wisconsin to Nebraska. It has not succeeded well 

 in the east so far. The yariety known as Mammoth appears to be 

 identical with Bartel. It is natiye to southern Illinois. 



12. Manatee is said to be yaluable for the south. It is a form 

 of Ruhus trivialis, and was found in Florida. Other types of this 

 southern species are no doubt destined to be very useful. 



VI. THE GOUMI. EL^AGNUS LONGIPES* 



Much has been said,t during the past fiye years, about the 

 goumi, all of which is deserved. It is a graceful and handsome 

 bush of five or six feet high, bearing a profusion of silvery- white 

 leaves and most abundant crops of cinnabar-red and gold-flecked 

 berries. Whether considered for ornament or for fruit, it is one 

 of the best of the many excellent shrubs which have come to us 

 from Japan. Its silken-gray foliage is of a kind which is always 

 desirable in shrubberies, and of which we have little in our native 

 flora. The bush is as hardy as an apple tree. It stood the past 

 winter in western New York without a blemish. It is enormously 

 productive of fruit, and the berries are a delight to look upon, 

 even if one does not desire to eat them. At first, these berries are 

 ver}^ astringent, but wiien they are full}^ ripe and soft, they have a 

 juicy piquancy which I enjoy. I have not tried them for culinary 

 l)urposes, but it is said that they may be used for sauces and pies 

 and in the many wa^'S in which cranberries are so delicious. The 

 fruits begin to ripen the first days of July in western New York, 

 and they continue upon the bush for three weeks, much to the 

 delight of birds. 



* Pronoimceil lon-gi-i»ees. The name means " long-footed," that is, long- 

 stemra(Ml, muX refers to the frnit stems. 



+ For illustrated aceoniits ot it, s^ee (inrden and Forest, i. 499 (1889); American 

 Garden, xi. 565 (1890); Van Deman, Kept. Dept. A<?ric., 1890, 423, colored plate 

 (under the name of EUvarjnus pungens) ; Orchard and Garden, xiv. 157 (1892); 

 Gardening, i. 275, 277 (1893). 



