November Notes from the Experimental Farm. 149 



NOVEMBER NOTES FROM THE ARBORETUM AT 

 THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 



By W. T. Macoun. 



At this season of the year when the deciduous trees and 

 shrubs have lost their foHage and much of their beauty, there yet 

 remain in the fruit and bark colourings of some of them, inter- 

 esting and dehghtful studies for the botanist, and means whereby, 

 perhaps an otherwise unpicturesque landscape may be made more 

 pleasing. The evergreens also are now thrown into greater relief 

 by the bareness of the deciduous trees ; their graceful forms are 

 seen to the best advantage, and their charming and varied colours, 

 while not so bright, perhaps, as during the growmg season, yet 

 they have their characteristics peculiar to winter and are more 

 noticeable through contrast with their surroundings. 



In the Arboretum at the Central Experimental Farm, a 

 number of shrubs are looking very attractive at present, with 

 their masses of bright fruit. Now that the leaves have fallen 

 the Barberries are displaying their scarlet fruit ; the little Berberis 

 Thunberg'u, DC, from Japan, outrivalling all others by the 

 brightness and abundance of its berries. 



That charming native climber Celastrus scandens, L. 

 (Climbing Bitter-sweet j, which, with its pretty green leaves, is 

 so noticeable in our woods in summer is a mass of bright 

 coloured fruit while a Japanese species, C. articulatus, Thunb, 

 with smaller and more delicately shaded fruit is fully as attractive. 



The so-called High-bush Cranberry, Viburnum Opulus, L. 

 is now loaded with its bright red, tart berries and being a large 

 shrub is very ornamental. 



The several species of Euonymus are looking very pretty 

 with their pink and crimson fruit, which hangs gracefully on 

 slender peduncles. A quite striking species, E. alatus was added 

 this year, with very rough or winged bark, and, if hardy, will 

 prove a valuable acquisition to the ornamental shrubs. 



Another shrub, very attractive at this season of the year, is 

 Lycium chinense with much larger and brighter berries than 



