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not by any means confined to such locations, Along the ridge 
east of the museum it is in its perfection, its dazzling white 
bloom strongly contrasting with the dark green of the cedars, so 
just east of the northern end of the herbaceous grounds and south 
of the road leading from that plantation to the hemlock grove. It 
is symmetrical in form, and this season is literally covered with 
bloom from top to bottom. But even more beautiful, if that be 
possible, is the pink form, of which we are fortunate in possessing 
two or three fine specimens. The best of these is to be found in 
the immediate vicinity of the viticetum, but a few minutes’ walk 
north of the tree enn referred to. It was a mass of bloom 
during the middle he month, its bright pink flowers being 
conspicuous fora lone pear The Forsythias, too, add to the 
beauty of the May shrubs, putting forth their profusion of bright 
yellow flowers ed in the month. © species are in cultivation 
in the Garden : one, the & vir ea a native of the country of the 
Mikado, with ie vivid bright green leaves, pointed at both ends 
and toothed only above the middle ; and the ee the F. For- 
tuner, from China, resembling it in flower, but at once distin- 
guished in foliage, its leaves being dull green, egg-shaped, de- 
cidedly paler on the lower surface, and often three- a ted. 
Grorce V. Nasu. 
TREE NOTES. 
mong the first evidences that the warmer irae of 
early spring is having its effect upon the vegetation_of the Gar 
is the rapid swelling of the buds of the trees. This change is 
most striking in the cases of those trees which bear their blos- 
soms before the leaves appear. 
his bud development is especially noticeable in the American 
elm, red maple and willow, although the careful observer will see 
similar changes going on in nearly all the trees and shrubs. 
is year the second week in April has witnessed the flower- 
ing of the alder (Aduus rugosa), hazel (Corylus Americana) and 
