October 9, 1895.] 



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405 



several species assumes brilliant colors, and in planting a 

 garden or park in the northern states, if our choice of mate- 

 rial was confined to the species of a single genus, we should 

 not hesitate to select the Viburnums. 



LoNiCERA ORiENTALis. — A Correspondent writing to this 

 journal several years ago (vol. ii., page 296) spoke of the 

 small value of this shrub in comparison with several of the 

 other bush Honeysuckles, especially the fine forms of Loni- 

 cera Tartarica and some western Asiatic species. To the 



branched, round-topped, leafy bush of a good habit, and. 

 therefore, well suited to stand by itself on the lavi'n or in the 

 shrubbery. A good plant to associate with the Oriental 

 Honeysuckle is the yellow-flowered Lonicera chrysantha of 

 Amurland, northern China and Japan. This is a tall, stout, 

 wide-spreading shrub withampleovate-acuminate,conspicu- 

 ously veined leaves, small pale yellow flowers raised on long 

 slender peduncles, and light cherry-red lustrous fruit which 

 ripens with that of L. orientalis and retains its beauty for 

 several weeks. Cultivated for many years in the Arnold 



Fig- 55- — Rhus Michauxii. — See page 404. 



beauty of this plant, hov.'ever, about the first of September, 

 when it is covered with its large black lustrous fruit, our 

 correspondent hardly did justice, for at that period of the 

 year it is certainly one of the most attractive shrubs of its 

 class, holding in beauty its fruit, which ripens late and is 

 black in color, for a long time after the berries of the Tar- 

 tarian and Ruprecht's Honeysuckles have fallen to the 

 ground or lost their brilliancy. L. orientalis, which is a 

 native of the Orient from Asia Minor to Cashmere and the 

 temperate Himalayas, becomes in this country a low- 



Arboretum at Boston, L. chrysantha has shown itself per- 

 fectly hardy there and in every way a desirable and useful 

 shrub. The plants, like those of all the bush Honeysuckles, 

 shovi' considerable variation, and among several varieties 

 cultivated in the Arboretum is one obtained from seeds 

 gathered by Dr. Bretschneider on the mountains near 

 Pekin. The fruit of this plant is nearly translucent, and is 

 considered by many persons more beautiful than the fruit 

 of Lonicera Ruprechtiana or of an)' of the other bush 

 Honeysuckles in the collection. 



