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lows with orange-red. The seven-sisters rose, Rosa multiflora, 
is covered with a noes of small but brent fui ‘clusters. 
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Across the road to the west o: ‘wo of 
these are ee alady ican! active. One, Ilex serraia, a native o: 
an, bears a pro’ n of bright red berries; these, although 
smaller, are b ter numbers t: hose of our 
rne in much gi 
own native Ilex verticillata, as you will see by a shrub of the 
latter nearby. 
ear the hollies is a group of the staff-tree family. Here one 
of the ae Euonymus ie dias is iu ust about to don its 
mantl fruit: , of dwarfer and more 
compact habit , with curious winged pranchesa is another species 
of great deere value; its fruits are a bright orange-red. 
Passing to the west we come to the cornels, where the most 
deepest ruby red, occurring in great abundance. 
here are other shrubs in the fruticetum which owe their 
attractiveness to colored fruit, and a hunt for all of these will 
id much of zest and interest to the visit. 
GEORGE V. Nasu 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Mr. Wilson Poponoe of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 
States ae of Agriculture, sae nt some days in late August 
at the n herbariu um studying specimens of the Avocado. 
growing in southern Florida and southern California. 
