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IIORTICULTUEE 



June 19, 1920 



CORNUS CONTROVERSA. 

 This is a widely distributed tree in 

 Japan, Korea and western China. In 

 western Szech'uan Wilson photo- 

 graphed a specimen sixty feet high 

 with a trunk seven feet In girth. In 

 the Cornus collection on the right-hand 

 side of the Meadow Road plants raised 

 from seeds collected in western China 

 by Wilson in 1907 are now in bloom, 

 but the largest of these Cornels in the 

 Arboretum is in the Peters' Hill Nurs- 

 ery. This plant was sent here in 1913 

 by the Park Department of the City of 

 Rochester, New York; it is now about 

 twenty-five feet high with a short 

 trunk and a head twenty-six feet in 

 diameter; the branches are long, 

 crowded, and spread at right angles 

 with the stem, drooping slightly at the 

 ends, the lowest sweeping the ground. 

 The upper side of the branches is 

 thickly covered with the flat flower- 

 clusters six or seven inches in diame- 

 ter, and raised on erect stems. The 

 flowers are white or white faintly 

 tinged with yellow, and are followed 

 by black shining fruits which are eaten 

 by the birds as fast as they ripen. As 

 It grows on Peters' Hill this Cornel is 

 a magnificent plant and the handsom- 

 est of the genus in the Arboretum 

 with the exception of the species with 

 white floral bracts represented here by 

 Cornus florida and C. kousa. 



To the student of botanical geogra- 

 phy Oomus controversa Is interesting 

 as another living witness of the rela- 

 tionship between the floras of eastern 

 Asia and eastern North America. For 

 in the genus Cornus with many spe- 

 cies there are but two with alternate 

 leaves, Cornus controversa in eastern 

 Asia and C. alternifolia in eastern 

 North America. Cornus controversa 

 was growing in the Veitchs' Nursery 

 near London in 1880. but it has re- 

 mained little known or understood in 

 gardens owing to a confusion of this 

 species with Cornus macrophylla, a 

 Himalayan and eastern Asiatic tree 

 with opposite leaves. Other treeg 

 which add beauty and interest to the 

 Arboretum at this time are three Vi- 

 burnums, the eastern American V. 

 prunifolium. which has already 

 dropped its flowers, and V. Lentago, 

 and the Japanese V. Sieboldii. 



Not many small trees are more 

 useful than these American Vibur- 

 nums for the decoration of American 

 parks and gardens, and fortunately 

 nurserymen realize this fact and now 

 grow them in large quantities, espe- 

 cially V. Lentago. The flowers of V. 

 prunifolium are whiter than those of 

 V. Lentago which are faintly tinged 

 with yellow, but the flower-clusters 

 and the leaves of the latter are larger. 



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