VARIETY IN SHRUBS 89 



Cotoneasters: hupekensis, racemiflora, soongarica nitens, muUiflora 

 calocarpa; these are the finest of the large number of species 

 introduced by E. H. "Wilson. They are large shrubs of graceful 

 habit, and have white flowers and red fruits, with the excep- 

 tion of C. nitens which has red flowers and black fruits. 



Rosa Hugonis: one of the most beautiful of roses with single flowers. 



Neillia sinensis: a beautiful shrub with drooping clusters of pink 

 flowers. 



Rhododendron (Azalea) Schlippenbachii: large pale pink flowers. 



Rhododendron (Azalea) japonicum: orange or flame-colored 

 flowers. 



Berheris vernte: A remarkably graceful barberry. 



Syringa Sweginzowii: considered the most beautiful of the Chinese 

 species lilacs. 



Spircea Veitchii: perhaps the handsomest of all spiraeas; grace- 

 ful arched branches of white flowers in early July. 



Euonymiis planipes: an evergreen shrub with magnificent crimson 

 fruit. 



This list is priceless: the basis for a collection is now before 

 the reader. All of these shrubs I have seen; a few we have; and 

 in the names here given lie fresh and exciting experiences for 

 all who do not yet know the variety in newer shrubs for use in 

 the gardens of America. 



Is it because the beauty of Japan, the older Japan, is fresh 

 upon me, since reading F. T. Piggot's enchanting book. The 

 Garden of Japan, or is it because of that ev^er fresh delight in 

 spring, which means more and more as one grows older, that a 

 sight experienced to-day seems more radiant, more moving in 

 beauty than any for long years? It was that lovely spectacle, 

 common to Tennessee in March, of a peach tree in full rose- 

 colored bloom against the blue of a distant mountain — Japan 

 in Tennessee! Yes, and even more suggestive when, as some- 

 times happens, a dark pine or cedar stands near the flowering 

 tree. " Men talk of the beauty of the earth and contrast it with 

 the unsubstantial celestial beauty that visionaries dream of; but 

 this blossom seen in the light of a western evening is visionary 



