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ticularly free fruiting. It is of vigorous growth and should 

 become very useful when better known. P. crenulata is another 

 very similar plant, also Chinese and also a Wilson introduction 

 (I believe), with orange berries and slightly crenulated leaf- 

 margins. As I remember it at Wisley, it is even later in ripening 

 its fruit than P. Gibbsii. 



Berberis rubrostilla is a mystery seedling that cropped up at 

 Wisley some years ago. It is nearly allied to B. polyantha and 

 B. WilsoncB and deciduous as both these species are. It is of 

 comparatively low growth, the main shoots slightly arching and 

 branching laterally; the flowers are pale yellow and pendent 

 under the branches and not particularly conspicuous, but the 

 foliage assumes a fine coloring and in combination with the 

 wonderfully attractive semitransparent sealing-wax berries of 

 elongated and almost angular shape, provides a rare picture 

 especially when kissed by the autumn sun. Layers and cuttings 

 are the only means of perpetuating the charming hybrid, which 

 will long remain scarce for that reason, but it has already pro- 

 duced several seedling varieties which, however beautiful in 

 themselves, cannot excel the parent for downright fascinating 

 charm. 



The best of all guides for the trial of new shrubs, say singly, 

 in even one of the smallest spaces, is in Professor Sargent's list 

 of eighteen of these new things. I give it with the merest word 

 of description after each subject : — 



Hamamelis mollis; blooms in winter, bright flowers. 



Prinsepia sinensis; earliest of all spring foliage, bright yellow 



flowers before the leaves. 

 Carylopsis gotoana; also bright yellow flowers, while shrub is 



leafless. 

 Amelanchier grandiflora; the first of this family in the Arboretum 



collection. 

 Forsythia intermedia spedabilis; the handsomest of all forsythias. 



