October 9, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



487 



Lycium Chinense, which is very closely related to the com- 

 mon Matrimony Vine, is a trailing shrub -which if trained to 

 some strong support will grow fifteen feet or more in height. 

 The very long slender branches hang down laden with ovate 

 or oblong, shining, scarlet fruit, which is from half an inch to 

 an inch in length, and with green fruit and flowers in all 

 stages of development. 



Perhaps the most remarkably distinct and showy shrub at 

 this season is Syinplocos paniculatus, a native of Japan. The 



on accoimt of its clean foliage as well as the graceful flowers 

 and almost unique fruitage. 



One does not naturally associate the autumn with the flow- 

 ering catkins of Willows and Alders, but late August and Sep- 

 tember is the season in which the nativeSea-side Alder (^4 //n^j 

 maritiiiia) Ijlossoms. The male catkins are very large, and 

 the round, cone-like fruit matures in the autimin of the fol- 

 lowing year. The plant is usually shrubby, but in favorable 

 situations it becomes a small tree twenty feet in lieight. 



Fig, 134. — Hrunus pendula. — See pai^e 400. 



branches of last year's growth are covered with racemes of 

 fruit of the brightest ultramarine blue color and the size of 

 small peas. The leaves are dark green, thick and rough, and 

 not liable to attack by insects. The nimTerous small, pure 

 ■white flowers appear in the latter part of May and in early 

 June. This shrub, which appears to be one of the very 

 hardiest, is wide-spreading, and ordinarily grows to a height of 

 six or seven feet at the Arboretum, although it may attain 

 much larger proportions. It is as yet very rare in cultivation, 

 but it deserves, and is likel\' to have, a place in all collections 



The common Spindle-tree {Euony/iius Europaiis) presents 

 considerable variation in foliage and fruit, and there are 

 numerous named forms and varieties to be found in ruir- 

 series. Throughout September the pods are conspicuous by 

 their red color, which varies in intensity on different plants. A 

 Japanese variety, known as E. Eiiroficeus, var. Hajniltonianiis. 

 has a much more robust habit of growth than the European 

 type, and the pods, which are of a beautiful pink color, also 

 open earlier, in the latter part of the month, and disclose the 

 seeds in the scarlet-colored arils. The well-known climbing 



