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Orange, Citrus trifoliata. I have had a few small fruit on my 
tree in previous years, but they did not ripen. This year the 
tree was covered with blossoms in the Spring, and as we had no 
late frosts, I had plenty of beautiful fruit which fully ripened and 
produced good seeds. The Catalpa had an abundance of fruit 
like long French beans; this also fruited in the Jubilee year. 
The Cassia Marylandica produced abundance of fruit and good seeds 
for the first time, which was also the case with Phygelius Capensis ; 
Caryopteris mastacanthus ; Aralia spinosa, very elegant in fruit, 
like a delicate ivy to which it is closely allied ; the common Box 
tree, Magnolia Lennei, with brilliant scarlet berries, and the fine 
Asparagus verticellatus. Outside my own garden I was pleased to 
see in the Botanical Garden in the Victoria Park the curious fruit of 
the Chinese Xanthoceras sorbifolia, and the very pretty berries of the 
Clerodendron trichotomum. I have both these in my garden, and I 
believe older plants than those in the Park, but I have never had 
fruit on them. And it is rather curious to note trees that have 
not fruited this year. There are no holly berries, and very few 
berries on the thorn trees; I have had no fruit on the Japanese 
Diospyros, or on the Christ’s thorn, though I have had them in 
other years not so favourable; nor have I had fruit on the 
Kohlreuteria which was covered with its golden pods in the Jubilee 
year ; and pomegranates in Bath, though they have formed their 
fruit have not ripened them. But it is quite certain that this 
non-fruiting arose not from the peculiarities of this year, but from 
the weather of last year, and perhaps even the year before. 
The autumnal tints were wonderfully good; and that must 
chiefly be put down to the bright summer, but partly also to the 
absence of early autumnal frosts. The late Miss Marianne North 
told me that of all trees she knew, and she had seen trees in all 
parts of the world, none could compare in beauty of autumnal 
tints with the Salisburia ; but I never realized the truth of this 
till this year. I have a fine specimen on my lawn, and the 
autumnal tints came on gradually, a lovely pale gold colour, 
