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about half the flowers on two inflorescences of a Mountain Ash 

 (Sorbus Aucuparia) in front of the greenhouses were opened and, 

 as late as November 24, plants of the Grass Pink (Dianthus plu- 

 marius), Sea Pink (Armeria vulgaris) , Dogwood (Primus tomcn- 

 tosa), Cornelian Cherry (C omits Mas), and Forsythia were in 

 bloom. Several Forsythia bushes were noticeably yellow with 

 blossoms on the date mentioned. Also on the same date a shrub 

 of Spirca Vanhoutci had nearly all of its leaf -buds open, presenting 

 the appearance that it usually has in early spring, just before 

 flowering. As late as December 2 plants of the heather (a form 

 of Callnna vulgaris) were in bloom. 



Japanese Garden. — Among numerous improvements made in the 

 Japanese Garden last fall, under the supervision of Miss Mary 

 Averill, our Curator of Japanese Gardening and Floral Art, is the 

 erection of a snow protection over one of the character pines near 

 the center of the garden, and about six feet in height. This device 

 consists of a bamboo pole about twice the height of the tree, with 

 stout cords extending from the top of the pole to the tips of the 

 branches, forming an open pyramidal cap. The strings hang slack, 

 and the intention is that they will reduce the weight of snow on the 

 branches and thus afford a certain amount of protection to the tree, 

 especially in the way of preventing the branches from being per- 

 manently bent out of the position into which they have been care- 

 fully trained. The device is known as a Yuki-Yoki. The Garden 

 has been fortunate this year in securing the services of Mr. J. 

 Shogo Maeda, a Japanese Landscape Architect, formerly with the 

 Department of Forestry and Landscape Gardening in the Faculty 

 of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University, Japan. Mr. Maeda 

 was assisted by Mr. M. Ito. Visitors to the Japanese Garden were 

 greatly interested, in the course of the fall work, in the method of 

 the Japanese gardeners in manuring trees and shrubs. In this 

 work the aim is to have no manure in evidence after the work is 

 done, and to secure this the method is to dig a rectangular cavity 

 in the soil a little at one side of the trunk of the tree or center of 

 the shrub, as the case may be. Into this cavity the manure is 

 placed, mixed with a little soil, and then covered over, with the 

 sod (if there was any) carefully replaced. At the close of the 



