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OcToBeER, 1908 
Winter Bloom in the South 
HE on this peninsula, near the mouth 
of the Patuxent River, near Chesapeake 
Bay, quite a number of shrubs which are of 
a tender nature seem to thrive. I have 
never seen winter temperature go very 
low, the reason for which may be partly 
explained by the latitude (we are about . 
sixty-five miles southeast of Washington, 
D. C.), but it may be caused more by 
the large bodies of salt water in the imme- 
diate vicinity and the only slight elevation 
of the land above tidewater. 
It is delightful to be able to step out 
of doors in wintertime and find various 
shrubs in bloom, some of them sweet- 
scented, such as the Lomicera Standish 
and Calycanthus precox, often called 
Chimonanthus fragrans. These, however, 
would probably be called hardy. They and 
the plants mentioned later will usually bloom 
here in winter, but if the season is severe 
they may possibly be delayed till spring. 
The Calycanthus is prone to begin its 
blooming period some time in December 
and continue to bloom through the 
month of January; it is a beautiful sight 
when covered with fragrant yellow blossoms, 
readily detected at some distance. It blooms 
on the leafless branches. Lonicera Stan- 
disht blooms while almost denuded of leaves, 
but that shrub appears to be somewhat of 
a semi-evergreen and some few leaves may 
be found near its base. The Jasminum 
nudiflorum (as its name would indicate) 
and the Jasminum fruticans open their 
beautiful flowers on the nude branches, 
and are a glorious sight in winter when 
in bloom. 
The foregoing are of a semi-upright nature 
and partake somewhat of the characteristics 
of a vine, but of all the winter bloomers I 
can imagine none more interesting than the 
laurustinus (Viburnum Tinus), a beautiful 
broad-leaved evergreen shrub with its 
many bunches of highly onamental buds 
which burst into attractive white flowers by 
degrees. 
It is an indefatigable bloomer, starting to 
flower about the first part of August and 
blooming more or less till about the middle 
of the following April. A prominent Wash- 
ington horticulturist told me that he 
thought I could not make it flower here; 
but I have! Still, I do not know of any 
other place, outside of St. Mary’s County, 
Md., in the same latitude, where the laurus- 
tinus has flowered when treated otherwise 
than as a greenhouse shrub. 
St. Mary’s Co., Md. A, L. Hopcpon, 
