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proving admirable trees. Cercidiphyllum japonicum which at Kew, 
owing to its young growth being cut back by frost once or twice 
every spring, has never got beyond the dimensions of a scrubby 
bush, is in the Arnold Arboretum represented by several vigorous 
cleanly-grown trees 30 to 40 feet high. The bush honeysuckles 
(Lonicera) have a value as ornamental fruiting shrubs beyond any- 
thing we ever experience. By the latter part of my stay in Boston 
many of them had become covered with crops of fruit beautiful in 
their abundance and in the translucence of their red, yellow or other 
colouring. 
Darwinii, the New Zealand veronicas, the bay laurel, Magnolia 
grandiflora, the arbutuses are all too tender to be grown in the open. 
In the matter of evergreens as a whole English gardens have much 
the advantage. 
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shrub, although long introduced and well known, has either 
neglected in Britain or that our climate generally is ae ne ve 
adapted for it as it is for most evergreens. It wo ce ae 
however, that the former is the case as they are some very 
specimens in the South of England. : : 
The botanical collection of shrubby plants is arranged in a series 
of long parallel borders, each border being about 8 or 10 feet efor 
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