December IS, 190i» 



HORTICULTURE, 



877 



Notes from the Arnold Arboretum 



Besides the Rhododendrons there are a number of 

 other broad-leaved evergreens among the new Chinese 

 introductions. Some have alread}' been mentioned in 

 previous issues as Sarcococca, Sycopsis, Xylosma, Loni- 

 cera pileata, Cle7natis Armandi and some evergreen 

 species of Viburnum, Cotoneaster and Rub us, but there 

 remain still a few not yet noted which may be briefly 

 described here. 



A very handsome evergreen shrub is Berberis acumin- 

 ata with arching spiny branches bright red when young. 

 The lanceolate leaves are spiny along the margin and 

 from three to four inches long. The slender-stalked 

 bronzy yellow flowers appear in clusters and are followed 

 by ovoid bluish black fruits. A shrub similar in appear- 

 ance and habit is Berberis Gagnepainii with slender 

 spines about one and a half inch in length. The 

 lanceolate leaves are from one to almost two inches long 

 and spiny along the margin. The yellow flowers are 

 borne on slender stalks in clusters of three to five and 

 are followed by ovoid violet-purple berries. Berberis 

 Wallichiana, though known to cultivation since a long 

 time, may be mentioned here, since the plants raised 

 from recently introduced Chinese seeds have proved 

 much hardier than the Himalayan plant. It is a hand- 

 some shrub with oblong or lance-oblong leaves about 

 two inches long and bright green on the upper and 

 bluish white on the lower surface. The flowers appear 

 in many-flowered clusters and are followed by ovoid 

 bluish black berries. A very distinct and handsome 

 species is Berberis verruculosa with yellow branches 

 and spines which form a pleasing contrast with the 

 glossy bright green foliage. The branches are rough 

 with minute warts and the slender spines are about one 

 half inch long. The oval leaves are from one half to 

 three quarters of an inch long and have a few spiny 

 teeth : on tlie upper surface they are bright glossy green 

 and pale on the lower. The yellow flowers appear soli- 

 tary or in few-flowered clusters on short stalks and the 

 violet purple berries are ovoid. Only half evergreen is 

 Berberis Wilsonae a low spiny shrub similar in habit to 

 B. Thunbcrgii. The oblanceolate entire leaves are from 

 one half to one inch long, dull green and strongly veined 

 and assume late in autumn a brilliant scarlet color. The 

 flowers appear in dense and short clusters along the 

 braiichej- and are followed by very ornamental coral- 

 red globose berries. 



A neat evergreen shrub of dense habit is Ilex Pernyi 

 with short-stalked oval dark green leaves about one to 

 one and a half inch in length and furnished with four 

 spiny teeth. The small white axillary flowers are fol- 

 lowed by red fruits about one third of an inch in 

 diameter. Ilex Fargesii has lanceolate slender-stalked 

 leaves finely toothed and from three to four inches long. 

 The axillary fruits are red like in the preceding species. 



A handsome evergreen Privet is Ligustrum strongy- 

 lophyllum with dark green short-stalked leaves broadly 

 oval and about one inch long. The small white flowers 

 are disposed in loose terminal panicles from three to five 

 inches long. Very variable in the shape of its foliage is 

 Ligustrum Henryi; the leaves vary from broadly ovate 

 or nearly round to ovate-lanceolate and from less than 

 one half to one and a half inch in length. The flowers 

 are borne in dense and short panicles. 



The laigesl flowers of all the Jasmines in cultivation, 

 has Jasininvm pi'imulinvm ; they measure one and a 



hahf-inch in diameter and are usually semi-double andi 

 of a rich yellow color. The leaves are trifoliate with the 

 middle leaflet oblong in outline and one and a half inch 

 long and the two lateral ones shorter and broader. 

 Jasminum floridum has also trifoliate, but smaller 

 leaves and much smaller flowers in loose terminal 

 corjTnbs; it is known to cultivation since a long time 

 from the Himalayas, but the recently introduced 

 Chinese form is apparently hardier. 



Stranvaesia undulata belong to genus little known in 

 cultivation and allied to Photinia. It is a half-evergreen 

 shrub with elliptic to oblong entire leaves from one and 

 a half to three inches long and turning late in autumn 

 to a brilliant scarlet. The small white flowers are dis- 

 posed in terminal corymbs and followed by red fruits 

 about one quarter of an inch in diameter. 



'jAk>n. 



Geranium Red Wing 



The illustration shows a flower truss of this new zonal 

 pelargonium raised by F. II. DeWitt & Co., of Wooster, 

 Ohio. The variety is described as a strong grower and 

 its introducers express the belief that with its splendid 

 color it will divide honors with S. A. Nutt for first place 

 among bedding geranium?:. 



